Re: how to extract data from bytea so it is be used in blob for mysql database

On 14/05/2009 20:07, George Kao wrote:
> The data in escaped octal is not acceptable. Is there a way to dump the
> bytea from posgresql database in hex format? I think it is acceptable by

No, I'm fairly sure that you can't do it directly in the pg_dump output.
However, you could maybe use the functions here -

  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-binarystring.html

- to write something that will output what you need.

Ray.

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