Eugene E. wrote:
> the problem is: you'll get this four byte sequence '\000' _instead_
> of NUL-byte anyway.
What you seem to be missing is that PostgreSQL data can be represented
in textual and in binary form. What you in psql is the textual form.
If you want the binary form you need to select it. Then you can pass
the exact bytes back and forth.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/