Encrypted data via dbi into postgres

2001-10-03 Thread K Old
Hello, I am trying to load encrypted data (a credit card number encrypted by the Crypt::Twofish perl library) and postgres won't accept the data. I have tried escaping each character, and nothing works. For example a credit card number like 7384998737264839 when encrypted by

Re: Encrypted data via dbi into postgres

2001-10-03 Thread James D. White
I don't know about Postgress, but you could convert the string to hex or uuencode it, then you have normal printable characters which should be acceptable, if a bit longer string. K Old wrote: Hello, I am trying to load encrypted data (a credit card number encrypted by the Crypt::Twofish

Re: Encrypted data via dbi into postgres

2001-10-03 Thread Keith A. Clay
We upload jpegs using bind parameters into mysql using the following: $stmt=replace into mytable (fld1,bfld1) values ('fld1',?); $sth=$dbh-prepare($stmt); $sth-execute($var_with_binary_data); James D. White wrote: 7384998737264839 when encrypted by Crypt::Twofish would look like

Re: Encrypted data via dbi into postgres

2001-10-03 Thread Alex Pilosov
You must use bytea type on postgres side to insert binary data, and bind your variable as SQL_BINARY. ALternatively, byte64 or hex encode your binary data. On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, K Old wrote: Hello, I am trying to load encrypted data (a credit card number encrypted by the Crypt::Twofish