On Friday 25 January 2008 10:11, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Florian Weimer wrote: > > This doesn't work because '\' is turned into '\\' by PostgreSQL, and > > not '\134': > > > > my $arg = shift; > > $arg =~ s!\\(\d{3})!chr(oct($1))!ge; > > > > Something like this might be better: > > > > my $arg = shift; > > $arg =~ s!\\(?:\\|(\d{3}))!$1 ? chr(oct($1)) : "\\"!ge; > > > > You need to do this in one go because pre-escaped backslashes like > > like '\\101' cause problems otherwise. > > > > (All ''-delimited strings in this posting use strict SQL syntax, > > i.e. no escaped backslashes.) > > I think you're right, although that's rather ugly ;-) I'll commit this > change for now, but if anyone comes up with a simpler recipe I'll be happy. >
Note we've been using Theo's plperl bytea patch on one of our production servers for some time; if anyone wants access to that lmk. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly