[Q] Postgres bytea columns and Marshal load

[George Moschovitis]

Hello everyone,

I have a table with a 'bytea' column in Postgres:

CREATE TABLE my_tab {
objectdump bytea
}

I Have an array wich i want to dump in this column:

a = ["Hello", "World"]
data = Marshal.dump(a)

I dump the data:

conn.exec("INSERT INTO my_tab (objectdump) VALUES
(#{PGConn.escape_bytea(data)})")

When i try to load the data:

res = conn.exec("SELECT * FROM my_tab")
a2 = Marshal.load(res.getvalue(0,0))

I get the following error:

TypeError: incompatible marshal file format (can't be read)
format version 4.8 required; 92.48 given

My guess is that something like unescape_bytea is needed.
Any idea?

Thanks in advance,

George Moschovitis




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