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From: Robert Perry <rlperry@lodestonetechnologies.com>
Subject: Re: libpq, PQExecParams and the inserting of binary data 
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:28:14 -0400
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org

	While on the subject might I ask where I could find some documentation 
of the raw binary format for other types such a Date and Decimal(,)?

Thanks
Robert Perry


On Jun 3, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> 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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