Re: libpq, ecpg and the bytea data type

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:22:22PM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> In any case, others have reported trouble handling bytea with ECPG;
> see the list archives for previous discussion.  I see a lot of calls
> to strlen() in the ECPG source code, so it might not be designed
> to handle binary data.  You might need to fetch the data in non-binary

Your right, it is not. ECPG at the moment expects data to be ascii and
translates it into the type of the variable. 

Michael
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