On 3/22/06 2:39 PM, "Sean Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On 3/22/06 1:36 PM, "John Siracusa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> On 3/22/06, Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Why is the type for "contents" a scalar?
>>
>> Because that's the default when there is not a more specific RDBO
>> column type mapped to whatever DBI returns for the column type.
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>>> I would like to store binary data in that column, which I can do with
>>> straight
>>> DBI, but it seems I have to specify the bind_type as DBD::Pg::PG_BYTEA.
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>> Is there no other way to use a bytea column using DBI? For example,
>> will it accept a base64 encoded string or something? If not, then
>> RDBO will have to be changed to add support for explicit bind types
>> for individual column values.
Just tried it and Base64 encoding works fine. I can presumably inflate and
deflate within my RDBO class. Thanks for the idea.
Sean
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