From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
To: Joe Conway <joseph.conway@home.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] PQescapeBytea documentation patch
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:25:55 +0000
Message-ID: <20011121122555.B21102@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BFABB2C.3020307@home.com>
References: <3BFABB2C.3020307@home.com>
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:21:00PM -0800, Joe Conway wrote:
> Here's a patch adding documentation for the PQescapeBytea function to
> libpq.sgml
...
+ <function>PQescapeBytea</function>
+ Escapes a binary string (bytea type) for use within an SQL query.
+ <synopsis>
+ unsigned char *PQescapeBytea(unsigned char *from,
+ size_t from_length,
+ size_t *to_length);
This makes me wonder: should libpq contain a function to do the opposite
too? eg.
string=GetValue(from a bytea type column)
PQunescapeBytea(string, some buffer, buffer's size)
- or is there already another way of doing it?
It seems to me that anyone using bytea with libpq will end up having
to reinvent this wheel. (Something worthy of being knocked up in my
Copious Free Time (tm))
Cheers,
Patrick
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