You must use bytea type on postgres side to insert binary data, and bind
your variable as SQL_BINARY.

ALternatively, byte64 or hex encode your binary data.

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, K Old wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to load encrypted data (a credit card number encrypted by the 
> Crypt::Twofish perl library) and postgres won't accept the data.  I have 
> tried escaping each character, and nothing works.
> 
> 
> For example a credit card number like
> 
> 7384998737264839
> 
> when encrypted by Crypt::Twofish would look like
> 
> q�Օ�с.'�Ҍ�
> 
> I cannot get postgres to accept this input.  Any ideas of different 
> datatypes, or ways I can get it to accept this highly encrypted string?
> 
> I have several modules that encrypt the string with letters and numbers 
> rather than symbols, etc. like Twofish, but would love to have this solution 
> work.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Kevin
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