Nathan Jahnke wrote: > good catch - it's because i'm used to working in plperlu. > unfortunately commenting out those lines makes no difference for this > particular data (that i linked in my original email); it's still > corrupted: Don't remove both: remove only the custom decoding. It's different for the encoding step. It can also be removed, but in this case you need to tell DBD::Pg that your data is binary, like this: $insert_sth->bind_param(1, $data, { pg_type => DBD::Pg::PG_BYTEA }); $insert_sth->execute(); (and have $data be raw binary, no custom encoding). -- Daniel PostgreSQL-powered mail user agent and storage: http://www.manitou-mail.org -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general