Re: bytea

I forgot, please CC me, I am on digest.
Dennis Gearon wrote:

> when bytea, text, and varchar(no limit entered) columns are used, do 
> they ALWAYS use an extra table/file? Or do they only do it after a 
> certain size of input?
>
> Also, if I wanted to put a *.pdf file in a bytea column, what 
> functions do I use to escape any characters in it?
>