| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Karel Zak" <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>, "Joerg Hessdoerfer" <Joerg(dot)Hessdoerfer(at)sea-gmbh(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested? |
| Date: | 2001-09-04 04:45:05 |
| Message-ID: | 24827.999578705@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> writes:
> I was thinking it would be nice to have a
> way to cast bytea into text and vice-versa,
How will you handle a null byte in bytea data? Transforming it directly
into an embedded null in a text object is NOT an acceptable answer,
because too many of the text functions will misbehave on such data.
regards, tom lane
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