Re: Encoding bytea

Achilleus Mantzios wrote:

> is there a way to encode a bytea in such a way that the resulting
> text stream be readily available (\\ escaped for unprintable chars) for
> usage in an insert statement?
>
> None of base64,hex,escape options in encode() seem to produce
> anything close.
>
> This is meant to be used with generating insert statements in xml files
> for remote processing.

Is this what you need?

create table t(f bytea);
insert into b values ('a\\003\\000\\001b');

create or replace function bytea2text(bytea) returns text as '
begin
return $1;
end;
' language plpgsql;

regression=# select 'insert into t values(' ||
quote_literal(bytea2text(f)) || ');' from t;
?column?
--------------------------------------------
insert into t values('a\\003\\000\\001b');
(1 row)

regression=# insert into t values('a\\003\\000\\001b');
INSERT 292656 1

HTH,

Joe