Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From recent IRC discussion: > . provide encode() for text values in addition to current bytea > . proved cast from text to bytea
What would these be meant to do? In particular I'm wondering if the proposed cast is meant to be a binary-compatible transformation (thereby exposing encoding issues), or if it's supposed to do the same backslash conversions as I/O would, or what. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate