Thanks, My bad, the table I was looking (8.7) at had the first column as the decimal representation and I did notice that the numbers changed as they moved right. Is there a way for bytea to take a hex number, or do I need to convert the bit stream to octal numbers? Thanks again, Woody -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Lane Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:14 PM To: Woody Woodring Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Bytea question with \208 "Woody Woodring" <george.woodring@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Could someone explain why \208 is not a valid syntax for bytea? Aren't those escapes octal? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
