On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 22:47 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > That's why bytea need special encoding to get around this check. But may be you would know, why I should write: { pg_type => DBD::Pg::PG_BYTEA } instead of possibly more generic: { TYPE => SQL_BINARY } The later is *explicitly* stated as undocumented/invalid/depreciated by the DBD::Pg documentation. While if valid, it would potencially allow me NOT to "use DBD::Pg;" -- which would be a GoodThing(tm). Do you know why? > However, there is a solution: send the paramters seperate from the How? I always thought that: 1. $db->prepare("string with q-marks in it"); $db->execute(@vector) does the trick. (and in fact, "prepare" allows driver to sense datatypes for @vector). I always do that, but exactly this form failed in this case. 2. or you mean $sh->bind_param(id, $value, \%atr), which I've just learned to use? This one can potencially be generaly usefull if available in the form "TYPE => SQL_BINARY", instead of "pg_type => DBD::Pg::PG_BYTEA". 3. or you mean something else is there. What is it? In what other way I can pass parameters separately? -- -R