From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Hex representation
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:43:51 -0600
Message-ID: <dcc563d10809241243t20c14dbcl65089e12d54de44@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <337D9AE2-2BEF-48E3-8DF4-E7F0CA560A1B@indiana.edu>
References: <337D9AE2-2BEF-48E3-8DF4-E7F0CA560A1B@indiana.edu>
I used this very simple little php script to make this
filename: mk55:
#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php
for ($i=0;$i<262144;$i++){
print chr(85);
}
?>
and ran it:
./mk55 > 55
ls -l 55
-rw-r--r-- 1 smarlowe smarlowe 262144 2008-09-24 13:41 55
i.e. it's 256k.
And it's attached.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know what the format of hex characters for postgres are? I'm
> trying to create files that contain a 0x55. It looks to me like it should
> require a delimiter of some sort between the characters. I don't know how
> postgres would know that the string was a hex representation and not just a
> character zero, followed by a character x, followed by a character 5,
> followed by a character 5.
>
> Carol
>
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Attachments:
mk55 (application/octet-stream, 75B) download
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