Re: Encoding bytea

Achilleus Mantzios wrote:

> is there a way to encode a bytea in such a way that the resulting
> text stream be readily available (\\ escaped for unprintable chars) for 
> usage in an insert statement?
> 
> None of base64,hex,escape options in encode() seem to produce
> anything close.
> 
> This is meant to be used with generating insert statements in xml files
> for remote processing.

Is this what you need?

create table t(f bytea);
insert into b values ('a\\003\\000\\001b');

create or replace function bytea2text(bytea) returns text as '
begin return $1;
end;
' language plpgsql;

regression=# select 'insert into t values(' || 
quote_literal(bytea2text(f)) || ');' from t;                  ?column?
-------------------------------------------- insert into t values('a\\003\\000\\001b');
(1 row)

regression=# insert into t values('a\\003\\000\\001b');
INSERT 292656 1

HTH,

Joe