Re: How to fill 'bytea' columns?!?

Depends what exactly you want to do.

If you want to do it from a client-side perl program, just use DBD::Pg and
bind the values as SQL_BINARY.

If you want to do it from server-side, look at contrib/pgcrypto, and at
the encode/decode functions.

-alex
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote:

> Hi!
>
> After long scratching and searching, I've come to conclusion that I'd like to
> use the 'bytea' type, because it should be able to hold binary data.
>
> But, I've found no doc or FAQ or whatever on that type.
>
> How does one use it? More specifically, how do I get binary values into a
> 'bytea'
> column using SQL, and how do I get it out?!?
>
> I hope someone can help me out.
>
> TIA,
> Joe
>
>
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