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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:54:43 +0100
From: Olivier Jeannet <jeannet@montrouge.tt.slb.com>
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To: Peter Mount <petermount@maidstone.gov.uk>
CC: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: bytea not recognized by JDBC (7.0.2)
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Peter Mount wrote:

> > How can I select a "bytea" field ?
> 
> getBytes() should work.

Can you be more precise please ?
As I get an error from the JDBC driver doing the select, on what variable
should I use getBytes() ?

> > Is this a bug of the JDBC driver (or a not implemented feature) ?
> 
> No not quite. getObject() currently doesn't know about bytea, so it's
> passing it on to the Serializable code which is then failing.

And what is the solution or work around ?

Regards,

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