Re: copy ... from stdin csv; and bytea

David Wilson wrote:
> My application is adding a bytea column to a table into which data is
> dumped in approximately 4k row batches, one batch approximately every
> 10 seconds. To this point, those dumps have used copy from stdin;
> however, I'm having some difficulty getting bytea encodings to work
> with it. Specifically, I can't seem to get the parser to recognize
> that what I'm handing it is an escaped string that needs to be parsed
> back into individual bytes rather than stored as-is. The encoding is
> very straightforward for INSERT, of course, but the COPY ... FROM
> STDIN CSV doesn't seem to want to work no matter what I've tried:
>
> \\000
> "\\000"
> "E'\\000'"
>
> etc.
>
> Is there a trick to this that I just didn't see in the documentation,
> or is this some limitation of CSV copy-in? If the latter, are there
> suggestions for workarounds other than to fallback on the inserts?
>
Try just a single \

e.g.
"ge.xls","application/vnd.ms-excel",71168,"\320\317\021\340\241[snip]

klint.

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