2010/9/30 Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.romano@notorand.it>:
> 2010/9/30 GOO Creations <goocreations@gmail.com>:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm sitting for days now, and I can't get this to work:
>>
>> I want to insert binary data (bytea) into my postgres DB via the c++ libpq.
>>
>> What I have is a char* (actually a QByteArray) and I want to insert it into
>> the DB and the retrieve it from there again.
>>
>> I can't find any good examples or tutorials online, so can anyone help me
>> (or direct met to a tutorial) on how to insert binary data and retrieve it
>> again?
>>
>> Thank you very much
>> Christoph
>
> Try chapter 31.3.4 from the v9 documentation.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-EXEC-ESCAPE-STRING
Sorry, I meant 30.3.5 in v8:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-EXEC-ESCAPE-BYTEA
It looks like there's no such a thing in v9, though!
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