Special char problem, need help.

Hi,

I have a string that is getting encoded using blowfish in postgres
(using my own function written in C for PG) and storted in the
database.
The problem is, that with some strings after encoding is done, I end up
with a special character in the middle of the encoded string that is
interprited as the end of that string, so basically the result is
trunticated because of that.
Now the weird part is if I do length(col) where col is the field that
holds my encoded string, it returns the real size, but if from C in my
decode function I do VARSIZE(string) it gives me the wrong (short) size.

My question is, how do I get from C the real size of the string even if
it has special character in it. Length(string) from postgres does it
somehow, and does it but VARSIZE(string) fails.

Any feedback would be appreciated,
Boulat.

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