On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Robert James <srobertja...@gmail.com> wrote: > When trying to INSERT on Postgres (9.1) to a bytea column, via E'' > escaped strings, I get the strings rejected because they're not UTF8. > I'm confused, since bytea isn't for strings but for binary. What > causes this? How do I fix this? (I know that escaped strings is not > the best way for binary data, but this is what I'm stuck with for now > - it's a legacy system which I need to maintain.)
Because the query needs to be utf8. So you need to escape any non-ascii chars in it. Also keep in mind that bytea is double-quoted. See the docs for details. -- marko -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
