Re: Storing images in PG?

> Postgresl, in treating things as strings, handles \000 as NULL as an end
> of string.
>
> select 'abc\000def' as hehehe;
> hehehe
> --------
> abc
> (1 row)
>

By the way, the '\000' string in the select statement above does get
converted to '\0' prior to byteain(), and that is precisely why the value
returned is truncated at that point. Take a look at the following snipit of
code:

<snip>
Datum
byteain(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
char *inputText = PG_GETARG_CSTRING(0);
char *tp;
char *rp;
int byte;
bytea *result;

for (byte = 0, tp = inputText; *tp != '\0'; byte++)
</snip>

Notice that byteain() gives up as soon as it hits a '\0' in the input
string. So the '\\000' on the client end turns into '\000' by the time it
hits byteain(), and byteain converts it to a single character '\0'. Hope
this all makes sense.

-- Joe