Re: Client encoding conversion for binary data (was Re: GUC and postgresql.conf docs)

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> I have not been closely following the discussion about FE/BE protocol
> changes, but the way converting binary seems dangerous - if you insert a
> .gif file into bytea column using decode(encodedgiffile,'base64'), but
> would like to get it out in binary for performance reasons, it is not
> good if it gets run through conversion routines.

bytea does not get converted in any case.  The issue here is what to do
about text datatypes.
        regards, tom lane