I got a column of type bytea, and found out that DBD::Pg is complaining when it sees backslashes. I'm using prepare/execute and was under the impression that values added that way were automatically escaped/quoted by DBI, but i have to s/\\/\\\\/g; to escape the backslashes (do i need to escape anything else?).
$sth = $dbh->prepare ("INSERT INTO foo (mybytea) VALUES (?);"); $sth->execute ($data);
DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: Bad input string for type bytea at ./p.pl line 99, <STDIN> line 1.
You need to use the PG_BYTEA constant to get DBD::Pg to escape it for you; don't escape it yourself:
$rv = $sth->bind_param($param_num, $bind_value,
{ pg_type => DBD::Pg::PG_BYTEA });Regards,
David
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