From: | Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee> |
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To: | Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Bytea string operator support |
Date: | 2001-09-06 17:39:49 |
Message-ID: | 20010906193949.A9357@l-t.ee |
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:34:06PM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
> > Why not just stick these things into encode() and name them
> > "my-cool-encoding" or whatever. There is no truly natural conversion
> > between text and bytea, so encode/decode seem like the proper place.
>
> Here's a patch for bytea string functions. As discussed:
>
> text encode(bytea, 'escape')
> bytea decode(text, 'escape')
Why are you using \xxx encoding there? As the 'escape' encoding
is supposed to be 'minimalistic' as it escapes only 2
problematic values, then IMHO it would be better to use
\0 and \\ as escapes - takes less room.
--
marko
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