"hernan gonzalez" <hgonzalez@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The objetionable ones IMHO are decode()/encode(), which can > consume/produce a "non-utf8 string" (I mean, not the backend encoding) Huh? Those deal with bytea too --- in fact, they've got nothing at all to do with multibyte character representations. They're for handling hex and base64 and suchlike representations of binary data. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
