Hi there.
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?
because I cant add an E letter to column name.
Something like that:

Select E test;


btw. I know that bytea field should be used for binary data, but this is only an example. I'm using this type of field in my functions to encrypt/decrypt some data and i need to use set_byte()/get_byte() functions.

--
Tomasz Rejman



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