Re: [GENERAL] Bytea to Text problems

2006-09-12 Thread John McCawley
Yeah, apparently it's OK when spewed out to the browser...Didn't think of that :P Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:56:09AM -0500, John McCawley wrote: I've searched high and low, and all I've found is people being chided for trying to convert from Bytea to text :)

Re: [GENERAL] Bytea to Text problems

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:56:09AM -0500, John McCawley wrote: > I've searched high and low, and all I've found is people being chided > for trying to convert from Bytea to text :) > > When I first designed my database, I simply didn't understand the > purpose of bytea, I didn't actually realize

[GENERAL] Bytea to Text problems

2006-09-12 Thread John McCawley
I've searched high and low, and all I've found is people being chided for trying to convert from Bytea to text :) When I first designed my database, I simply didn't understand the purpose of bytea, I didn't actually realize that there *was* a text data type. (Actually, I was porting from a MS