Re: Storing image contents in TEXT fields

You must use type 'bytea'.

When you insert data, you must escape them like this: '\001\002\\000'
note the double-backslash for null byte.

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Jerome Alet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to know if it's possible to store an image content in a TEXT field,
> or if another type is needed (in this case, then which one ?).
>
> I don't want to use BLOBs, because I modify an existing application
> which also works with MySQL, and I can't update to postgresql-7.1.x
> (I don't admin this server)
>
> in a TEXT field the image seems to be truncated at the first nul byte.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> bye,
>
> Jerome Alet
>
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