Hello everyone. Having a weird issue. I have a value inserted into a bytea column, which is about 137megs in size.
If I use octet_length() to check the size of the column for this specific row I get this: TestDB=# SELECT octet_length(rawdata) FROM LargeData; octet_length -------------- 143721188 When fetching the row through the C API, and I use PQgetlength() on the column of the row in question I get: (gdb) p (int)PQgetlength(result, rowIndex, i) $3 = 544453159 I am wondering if I am lacking knowledge that explains why these values are different, or if something fishy is going on. What led me to investigating this is that fetching this row in a C application is causing a failure. My programs memory usage balloons to 1.3 gigs after executing this: const char *valC = PQgetvalue(result, rowIndex, i); Am I doing something wrong, or is there some ideas what I should investigate next? This seems quite puzzling to me. Thanks in advance for any help/insight offered, Michael.