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Re: Reading bytea field: msg#00021

Subject: Re: Reading bytea field
Hi,

On 10/21/05, Jochen Kokemüller <jochen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I read that it is better to use PQexecParams instead of PQescape. In the
> bytea field is then the picture with every Byte escaped. So the first
> few bytes look like this:
>
>  \377\330\377\340\000\020JFIF ...
>
> I wouldn't bother if i knew how to unescape this sequence. I supposed
> that this is more or less an internal representation, but when i try to
> retrieve the data. i get it like this.

If you'd use PQexecParams() for SELECT query with resultType = 1, you
shouldn't have any problem. Take a look at the examples in the
attachment.

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