| From: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | joe(at)snikeris(dot)com |
| Cc: | "pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Documentation for pgp_pub_decrypt |
| Date: | 2016-09-26 18:19:40 |
| Message-ID: | CACjxUsMwjey7tCm1aKoMfHXLSUTuoLWHeir_7=HaNQa26maqFw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:55 AM, <joe(at)snikeris(dot)com> wrote:
> I believe the first argument [apparently of pg_sym_decrypt() and
> pg_pub_decrypt()] should be of type 'text'. Especially
> considering the paragraph that follows discusses how passing in
> bytea is disallowed.
The *encrypted* form is bytea; those functions *return* text and
are thus not a good way to get back to unencrypted bytea data; an
additional transformation would still be required to get to the
byte format from text, and the bytes representing those character
strings would depend on the character encoding.
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Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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