On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Bytea IS documented in 7.2-devel and is definitely not going away. Major
> > benefit of bytea over base64/whatever encoding is storage space. Need to
> > escape/unescape input data depends on your frontend client. Perl DBD::Pg
> > will do it transparently without needing to do \\ escapes.
> >
> > In 7.2, there will also be functions base64_encode/base64_decode for bytea
> > types. In 7.1, they exist under contrib/pg_crypto
>
> Do they need to be removed from 7.2 /contrib? Please tell me how.
Nono. Ones in /contrib are much more than encoding, its whole crypto
setup. Ones in core are slightly modified versions of them which only take
care of encode/decode.
-alex