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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 20:19:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert.Patrick@cs.cmu.edu
To: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: bytea data types
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Postgres has a built-in byte array type (bytea).  My question is how do
I use this type?  For example, let's say I have a small GIF file (or any
other binary data) that I want to store as a byte array.

create images (id =int4, contents=bytea)

append images (id=1234, contents=?????????)

What I really want to know is:

1.) What goes where the "??????????" are?
2.) If this can be done, is the big-endian, little-endian problem
          handled by Postgres or do I have to do it myself? 

Thanks,
Robert

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