Re: [PATCH] by request: base64 for bytea

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Marko Kreen wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:55:46PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
>
> > > Attached is a patch (including documentation this time :) containing two
> > > functions, base64_encode(bytea) and base64_decode(text) with obvious
> > > functionality.
>
> Btw, there are functions in form encode(data, 'base64'),
> decode(data, 'base64') in contrib/pgcrypto. They do also
> encode(data, 'hex'). In the future I need to do probably
> encode(data, 'pgp-armor') too...
>
> I agree those functionality should be in core code, and if
> the Alex ones get there, maybe he could use same interface?
Oy, I didn't notice them in contrib/pgcrypt.

Bruce, you can take my patch out of queue, stuff in pgcrypt is far more
comprehensive than what I done.

> Or I can extract it out from pgcrypto and submit to core ;)
> I simply had not a need for it because I used those with
> pgcrypto, but Alex seems to hint that there would be bit of
> interest otherwise too.
I think encode/decode should be part of core, as they are basic functions
to manipulate bytea data...

-alex