On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Michael Clark<codingni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello - am I in the wrong mailing list for this sort of problem? :-
Probably but it's also a pretty technical point and you're programming in C so it's kind of borderline. If you're using text-mode then your datum that you're getting from libpq is a text representation of the datum. For bytea in released versions that means anything which isn't a printable ascii character will be octal encoded like \123. You can use PQunescapeBytea to unescape it. If you use binary encoding then you don't have to deal with that. Though I seem to recall there is still a gotcha you have to worry about if there are nul bytes in your datum. I don't recall exactly what that meant you had to do though. -- greg http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
