I inserted two binary files to a bytea field "contents" file1 size was 7834649 bytes file2 size was 5888534 bytes select filename, octet_length(contents), length(contents) from localfil returns "file1 ";16777184;16777184 "file2 ";15768893;15768893 It seems that for some reason postgres returns sometimes escaped string size (eq. single byte 0x00 uploaded as \\000 size is returned as 5 ) Why result is incorrect ? How to get the actual size of bytea field ? Using Postgres 8.1 in XP , cluster encoding is UTF-8 Andrus.
