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Re: Selecting data from bytea field in 8.3

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Tomasz Rejman wrote:
> Few days ago I have changed my postgreSQL to 8.3 version and I have problem 
> with bytea fields. Let me show you an example:
> 
> CREATE TABLE testtable
> (
> test bytea
> );
> insert into testTable (test) VALUES 
> (E'\304\205\304\207\305\274\303\263\305\202wjfdsafdsa');
> select encode(test, 'escape') from testTable;
> 
> In the previous version last Select will display exact characters in UTF8 
> encoding (some polish letters with dot-s and comma-s on them), but in 8.3 
> i'm getting an escaped string with byte codes (like this one in Insert 
> querry)
> 
> (correct data should be like that:
> select E'\304\205\304\207\305\274\303\263\305\202wjfdsafdsa';
> )
> 
> What should I do to tell the postgreSQL to unescape that data?

select convert_from(test, 'UTF8') from testTable;

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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