Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?

Where did we leave this?

> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:07:32AM +0200, Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Please find attached some very simple encoders/decoders for bytea and base64.
> > Bytea encoder is very picky about what it leaves unescaped - basically the
> > base64
> > char set ;-)
> >
> > Since this seems to be a very poorly documented but much asked-for thing, I
> > thought
> > you would maybe like to add this code to libpq (so that everyone benefits).
> >
> > I'm aware that function renames might be necessary, though.
> > If you like, I could make the code fit into libpq, and send diffs.
> >
> > Any comments/interests?
>
> What implement base64 PostgreSQL datetype that use externaly base64 and
> internaly same things as bytea. It prevent FE and parser problems with
> "bad" chars and internaly for data storage save less space than text
> with base64. Of course it doesn't solve a problem with encoding/decoding
> data in your application to/from base64. May be implement for this
> datetype cast to/from bytea too.
>
> SELECT my_bytea::base64 FROM foo;
>
> INSERT INTO foo (my_bytea) VALUES ('some_base64_string'::bytea);
>
> And you can still fetch all data directly in batea by binary cursor.
>
> Comments?
>
> Karel
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