Re: [GENERAL] Bytea question with \208

2007-08-17 Thread Lew
Decibel! wrote: 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

Re: [GENERAL] Bytea question with \208

2007-08-09 Thread Decibel!
or do I need to convert the > bit stream to octal numbers? to_hex()? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Lane > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:14 PM > To: Woody Woodring > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Sub

Re: [GENERAL] Bytea question with \208

2007-08-09 Thread Woody Woodring
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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:

Re: [GENERAL] Bytea question with \208

2007-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
"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 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free

[GENERAL] Bytea question with \208

2007-08-09 Thread Woody Woodring
Could someone explain why \208 is not a valid syntax for bytea? I am getting the following: test=> select E'\\207'::bytea; bytea --- \207 (1 row) test=> select E'\\208'::bytea; ERROR: invalid input syntax for type bytea test=> select E'\\209'::bytea; ERROR: invalid input syntax for type