Re: Re: Re: binary data

Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:22:32AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> He did say the rules for escaping things are tricky ;-).

>  And what use some better encoding if you have a lot of binary chars 
> in data. For example base64, that code 2 chars to 3 instead \\000 
> that encode 1 char to 4. 

Yeah, it's pretty messy.  Perhaps we could offer a couple of conversion
functions that convert bytea to or from base64 or other popular
encodings.  bytea is pretty impoverished --- it hasn't received the
attention it deserves.
        regards, tom lane