Am Montag, 29. Mai 2006 13:35 schrieb Rafal Pietrak: > How come the bytearea is *interpreted* as having encoding? If you pass data in text mode, all data is subject to encoding handling. If you don't want that, you need to use the binary mode. > Or to put it the other way around: What column datatype should I use for > an opoque binary value? bytea is the one. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/