Yeah, apparently it's OK when spewed out to the browser...Didn't think
of that :P
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:56:09AM -0500, John McCawley wrote:
I've searched high and low, and all I've found is people being chided
for trying to convert from Bytea to text :)
When I first designed my database, I simply didn't understand the
purpose of bytea, I didn't actually realize that there *was* a text data
type. (Actually, I was porting from a MS SQL database, and if I
remember correctly, PgAdmin actually made the decision for me) I now
need to convert my field from bytea to text, but there doesn't seem to
be a clean way to do it. So far I have done the following:
Doesn't straight assignment do it?
Don't confuse the escaped output from bytea with the actual data.
Hope this helps,
