Re: bytea vs. pg_dump

From: Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: bytea vs. pg_dump
Date: 2009-05-06 14:14:55
Message-ID: 4A019B5F.6080804@esilo.com
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> another nit with base64 is that properly encoded data requires
>> newlines according to the standard.
>>
>
> er, no, not as I read rfc 3548 s 2.1.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>

Why does encode('my text', 'base64') include newlines in its output? I
think MIME requires text to be broken into 76 char lines but why does
encode do this?

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