| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PQexecParams |
| Date: | 2005-03-16 15:39:15 |
| Message-ID: | 6245.1110987555@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> writes:
>> Even binary data? ie. You could upload a binary string straight into
>> PQexecParams with no octal conversion?
> Well, what it means you do not have to escape data at the protocol level
> you don't have to be concerned about formatting the query string.
> However the server still may still need to interpret the data for
> storage...meaning for the bytea type at least you have to do octal
> encoding (at least that's what I do, I'd like nothing better than to be
> corrected on this point).
Not if you send the bytea parameter in binary format. If you send it in
text format that's true.
regards, tom lane
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