 >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?


Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:52:26 +1000
Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com>
Re: TOAST and bytea JAVA
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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Tue, 09 Oct 2001 21:32:33 -0700
Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com>
Re: [HACKERS] TOAST and bytea JAVA