Re: Large Objects in Postgres

[Giles Lean]

On 18 Aug 2001 17:20:39 -0700  Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> From what I understand, you *can* store binary data with a column type
> 'bytea', which is grossly underdocumented, although the DBD::Pg driver
> directly supports.

There was a dicussion of this again on one of the PostgreSQL lists a
few days ago, again.  Seems you still have to escape \0 on input and
you get non-printable data escaped on output.  Base64 is probably
still the easiest thing to do at the moment.

Regards,

Giles