[GENERAL] plpythonu and bytea

[Greg Steffensen]

Hey, I'm trying to write some plpython procedures that read binary data from images on the disk and store it in bytea fields.  I'm basically trying to write a plpython procedure that accepts a varchar and returns a bytea, with these procedure contents:

data = ""> return data

(The actual procedure will have more in it, but that's the tricky part).  But the returned data is always severely truncated.  Is returning a bytea from plpython impossible, or is there some way I should escape the data string?  I've tried using the built in encode and decode functions, but they don't seem to help.  If worse comes to worse, I can store the base64 encoded version, of course, but I'd rather not do that.  Any ideas?

Greg