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Message-ID: <ae830e6c05060312001f4e6ba1@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:00:51 -0500
From: David Hinkle <drachs@gmail.com>
Reply-To: David Hinkle <drachs@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: libpq, PQExecParams and the inserting of binary data
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It would be great if someone could take  the time to write this up and
include it in the manual, I have to do about a million extraniouse
text conversions, small string allocations and deallocations because I
couldn't find any docs.

David

On 6/3/05, Robert Perry <rlperry@lodestonetechnologies.com> wrote:
>         While on the subject might I ask where I could find some document=
ation
> of the raw binary format for other types such a Date and Decimal(,)?
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> Robert Perry
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> On Jun 3, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
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> > David Hinkle <drachs@gmail.com> writes:
> >> As you can see, I assumed I could use PQexapeBytea to escape the
> >> binary data and then just use the returned value as a text parameter.
> >
> > No, because PQescapeBytea is designed to do the escaping that would be
> > needed to put the bytea value into a string literal in a SQL command.
> > There's an extra level of backslashing involved to do that (because
> > backslashes are special to both the string-literal syntax and the
> > text input syntax for bytea).
> >
> > But this is really the hard way to do it considering that you are using
> > PQexecParams.  Just tell PQexecParams that you want this parameter to
> > be
> > binary format, and pass the *raw* binary string as the parameter.
> >
> >> I couldn't find any documentation on using PQExecParams
> >> with binary parameters,
> >
> > src/test/examples/testlibpq3.c ... that example is reproduced in
> > the libpq manual, as well.
> >
> >                       regards, tom lane
> >
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> > broadcast)---------------------------
> > TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
> >
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