[rt-devel] RT 1.3.48

[Alex Pilosov]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Jesse wrote:

> As I understand it, toast-based columns aren't embedded-null-safe.
> The plan is currently to BASE64 encode attachments that contain embedded nulls
> if the database engine (like PG7.1) doesn't have support for a true blob
> type.

a) I'm not sure about embedded nulls, AFAIK, if the field is declared of
type 'bytea' it must be embedded-null-safe.

b) If you chose to base64 encode, then you can use TOASTs and forget about
blobs...Or that's what you do?

-alex