bytea type

Started by Franck Martinabout 25 years ago2 messages

Franck@sopac.org

about 25 years ago

I found bytea doing a \dT in psql, but I do not find any documentation on
it.

Could I have some source code implementation of bytea with examples ?

Franck Martin
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Bruce Momjian

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about 25 years ago

In reply to: Franck Martin (#1)

Re: bytea type

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I found bytea doing a \dT in psql, but I do not find any documentation on
it.

Could I have some source code implementation of bytea with examples ?

Yes, it is like text, but you can put in binary data as 'a\\000b' puts
a, null, b.

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