Re: have you feel anything when you read this ?

PFC wrote:
> 
>> I wrote:
>>
>>>> the problem is: you'll get this four byte sequence '\000' _instead_  
>>>> of  NUL-byte anyway.
>>
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>>> Your client library should take care of escaping and de-escaping.
>>
>>
>> We both agree as you see.
>>
>> Then i am asking:
>> WHY should a client take care of de-escaping ? Why not to get his 
>> data  unchanged ?
> 
> 
>     I can understand why you say that for something as simple as a 
> BYTEA, but  if the value to be passed to the client is an ARRAY of 
> geometric types or  something

Who said "array" ? I just want to restore _one byte_ from bytea storage. 
that's all.

>     Exporting data from postgres in binary is only useful to C 
> programmers

Serious judgment ! Extremely seriuos...
nonetheless C programmers could not do this.