Thank you very much for this solution. We will try it! :-)

2010/1/11 Sören Meyer-Eppler <[email protected]>

> >>> Is there a way to work with columns of type bytea in PostgreSQL?
> >> No, this type is (currently) not natively supported, although
> casting to
> >> text might be a possible way to go for the time being - but I did not
> >> try this personally.
>
> That's what I'm currently doing in Postgres.
>
> insert into "table" ( "byteaColumn" ) values ( decode(
> 'yourHexEncodedStringGoesHere', 'hex' ));
>
> select encode( "byteaColumn", 'hex' ) from "table";
>
> Works. Although skipping the extra encoding step (which blows up
> every byte to two) would be cool of course.
>
> BTW, I had to patch std::wstring support into SOCI for supporting
> Postgres multibyte UTF strings. Any chance to get Unicode support in
> the official version?
>
> cheers,
>
>    Sören
>
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