On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:16:15PM -0400, Woody Woodring wrote:
> My bad,  the table I was looking (8.7) at had the first column as the
> decimal representation and I did notice that the numbers changed as they
> moved right.
> 
> Is there a way for bytea to take a hex number, or do I need to convert the
> bit stream to octal numbers?

to_hex()?

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:14 PM
> To: Woody Woodring
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Bytea question with \208 
> 
> "Woody Woodring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Could someone explain why \208 is not a valid syntax for bytea?
> 
> Aren't those escapes octal?
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
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