From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: rsindlin@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: bytea documentation error
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 16:05:01 -0400
Message-ID: <558534.1679169901@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <167907221210.1803488.5939223864945604536@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <167907221210.1803488.5939223864945604536@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> I believe there is a documentation error in the example for "8.4.1 bytea Hex
> Format"
> (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-binary.html#id-1.5.7.12.9).
> The example is
> `SELECT '\xDEADBEEF';`
> However, when I try that on my system [psql (13.9 (Ubuntu
> 13.9-1.pgdg20.04+1), server 13.10 (Ubuntu 13.10-1.pgdg20.04+1))], it works
> *but* the result is type `text` per `pg_typeof()`. I believe the example
> needs to be corrected with an explicit cast to `bytea`.
Yeah, that's not really right. Also, this example is pretty shoddy
compared to the one for escape format a little further down.
Will fix, thanks for the report!
regards, tom lane
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