From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Nigel J. Andrews <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
Cc: Stéphane Pinel <spinel@noos.fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Handling Blobs with libpq
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:49:42 -0800
Message-ID: <3E7A3776.4080302@joeconway.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0303202135500.10910-100000@ponder.fairway2k.co.uk>
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Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> Also, someone recently pointed out that even with bytea if the client encoding
> is different when selecting than it was when storing there is still a chance
> that your data will be come out different to how it should.
>
If you are using libpq in your own C program, one way around these
issues (for retrieval anyway) is to use a binary cursor.
Joe
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