[Python-Dev] BLOBs in Pg

[Steve Holden]

Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:14:21PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>> I use MySQL, but sort of intend to learn PostgreSQL.  I didn't know that
>> PostgreSQL has no real support for BLOBs.
> 
>    I think it has - BYTEA data type.
> 
But the Python DB adapters appears to require some fairly hairy escaping
of the data to make it usable with the cursor execute() method. IMHO you
shouldn't have to escape data that is passed for insertion via a
parameterized query.

regards
 Steve
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