Re: [HACKERS] TOAST and bytea JAVA

Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com>

From: Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com>
To: Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-10-10T04:32:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Chris,

Current sources for the jdbc driver does support the bytea type. 
However the driver for 7.1 does not.

thanks,
--Barry


Chris Bitmead wrote:

>  >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?
> 
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