Re: [PATCH] by request: base64 for bytea

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:42:46AM -0400, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > Or I can extract it out from pgcrypto and submit to core ;)
> > I simply had not a need for it because I used those with
> > pgcrypto, but Alex seems to hint that there would be bit of
> > interest otherwise too.
> I think encode/decode should be part of core, as they are basic functions
> to manipulate bytea data...

Ok, I think I look into it. I am anyway preparing a big update
to pgcrypto.

Question to -hackers: currently there is not possible to cast
bytea to text and vice-versa. Is this intentional or bug?

It is weird because internal representation is exactly the same.
As I want my funtions to operate on both, do I need to create
separate funtion entries to every combination of parameters?
It gets crazy on encrypt_iv(data, key, iv, type) which has 3
parameters that can be both bytea or text...

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marko