> Bytea IS documented in 7.2-devel and is definitely not going away. Major
> benefit of bytea over base64/whatever encoding is storage space. Need to
> escape/unescape input data depends on your frontend client. Perl DBD::Pg
> will do it transparently without needing to do \\ escapes.
>
> In 7.2, there will also be functions base64_encode/base64_decode for bytea
> types. In 7.1, they exist under contrib/pg_crypto
Do they need to be removed from 7.2 /contrib? Please tell me how.
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