Hello Karsten, On Tues., Feb 08, 2011, Karsten Hilbert wrote: >On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 02:19:49PM +0100, Michael wrote: >>>> The arrow in the last line indicates that 'convert_from' is not >>>> correctly parsed. >>>> >>>My understanding was that your msg column was of type bytea. Is this >>>not the case? Or is it a different column which needs converting? >>> >> The main developer has confirmed that the msg column is stored >> as a BLOB, > >That is not really possible since PostgreSQL does not have a >"BLOB" data type as such. > >It would either be a BYTEA column or a Large Object (which >would live elsewhere and not inside the table you work on). > >> and I'm nearly sure that bytea is used in this case. >> >Very likely. > Okay, after looking at the sources I can confirm that BLOB maps indeed to the 'bytea' PostgreSQL data type. Regards, Michael -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
