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Re: TOAST and bytea JAVA

Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com>

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From: Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>
Date: 2001-10-10T03:52:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
 >Use bytea, its for 0-255, binary data.  When your client
 >library does not support it, then base64 it in client side
 >and later decode() into place.

Thanks, bytea sounds like what I need. Why no documentation on this 
important data type?

Does the Java client library support setting this type using
setBytes or setBinaryStream?