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Add mention of bytea data type and escaping rules.

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Bruce Momjian 2001-09-04 03:17:54 +00:00
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<!--
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.60 2001/08/31 01:55:25 ishii Exp $
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.61 2001/09/04 03:17:54 momjian Exp $
-->
<chapter id="datatype">
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<entry>rectangular box in 2D plane</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><type>bytea</type></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>binary data</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><type>character(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry>
<entry><type>char(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry>
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<entry>text</entry>
<entry>Variable unlimited length</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
<row>
<entry>bytea</entry>
<entry>binary data</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
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standard, many other RDBMS packages have it as well.
</para>
<para>
The <type>bytea</type> data type allows storage of binary data,
specifically allowing storage of NULLs which are entered as
<literal>'\\000'</>. The first backslash is interpreted by the
single quotes, and the second is recognized by <type>bytea</> and
preceeds a three digit octal value. For a similar reason, a
backslash must be entered into a field as <literal>'\\\\'</> or
<literal>'\\134'</>. You may also have to escape line feeds and
carriage return if your interface automatically translates these. It
can store values of any length. <type>Bytea</> is a non-standard
data type.
</para>
<para>
The storage requirement for data of these types is 4 bytes plus
the actual string, and in case of <type>character</type> plus the