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PostgreSQL's bytea Implementation in C

Sep 5, 2026 7 min read Jay Hubbert

bytea is the one string type in PostgreSQL that is genuinely binary. It has no encoding, no collation, no length limit in the SQL sense, and no blank-padding semantics. That makes …

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