On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:34:06PM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
> > Why not just stick these things into encode() and name them
> > "my-cool-encoding" or whatever. There is no truly natural conversion
> > between text and bytea, so encode/decode seem like the proper place.
>
> Here's a patch for bytea string functions. As discussed:
>
> text encode(bytea, 'escape')
> bytea decode(text, 'escape')
Why are you using \xxx encoding there? As the 'escape' encoding
is supposed to be 'minimalistic' as it escapes only 2
problematic values, then IMHO it would be better to use
\0 and \\ as escapes - takes less room.
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marko