Andrew Maclean wrote:
Can't we have a data type called say "image" that is just a representation of the bytes and nothing else? It seems to me that bytea is a hangover from the old days
um, thats what BYTEA is.
Is there some underlying physical reason why postgresql and other databases cannot handle binary data without going through all this silly escape stuff which must have a massive impact on performance. Or is it just because databases originally were built to handle just test data?
thats all in the API's you use to access the database. you can pass in binary data directly without escaping if your API bindings support parameterized calls, like pqExecParams()
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