PostgreSQL 9.0 introduced "hex" as the new default format for encoding binary data. Because "pg_unescape_bytea" only works with the old "escape" format, you need to do pg_query('SET bytea_output = "escape";'); before executing your select queries.
More details can be found here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/datatype-binary.html
[Ed: Recent PostgreSQL versions support unescaping the "hex" format.]
pg_unescape_bytea
(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
pg_unescape_bytea — 反转义 bytea 类型的二进制数据
说明
pg_unescape_bytea() 反转义 PostgreSQL bytea 数据值。返回反转义后的字符串，可能包含二进制数据。
注意:
当
SELECTbytea 类型时，PostgreSQL 返回前缀为“\”的八进制字节值（例如 \032）。用户需要手动将其转换回二进制格式。本函数需要 PostgreSQL 7.2 及其以后的版本。在 PostgreSQL 7.2.0 和 7.2.1 中，当启用了多字节支持时 bytea 值必需进行类型转换，例如
INSERT INTO test_table (image) VALUES ('$image_escaped'::bytea);；PostgreSQL 7.2.2 及其以后的版本不需要类型转换。唯一的例外是当客户端和后端的字符编码不匹配时，有可能出现多字节流错误。用户必须将其转换为 bytea 来避免此错误。
返回值
包含反转义数据的 string。
示例
示例 #1 pg_unescape_bytea() 示例
<?php
// Connect to the database
$dbconn = pg_connect('dbname=foo');
// Get the bytea data
$res = pg_query("SELECT data FROM gallery WHERE name='Pine trees'");
$raw = pg_fetch_result($res, 'data');
// Convert to binary and send to the browser
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
echo pg_unescape_bytea($raw);
?>
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User Contributed Notes 3 notes
liviu dot mirea at gmail dot com ¶
14 years ago
muralito at montevideo dot com dot uy ¶
13 years ago
The workaround is to configure a property in the postgres database for the user, to make postgres behave as the old default.
ALTER USER username SET bytea_output = 'escape';
(or using the pgadmin interface)
tiagopastorello at gmail dot com ¶
16 years ago
<?php
$conexao = pg_connect("host=localhost dbname=name user=postgres password=123456") or die('Sorry =( : ' . pg_last_error());
$cod= $_GET['cod'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE cod_field = '$cod'";
$quer = pg_query($conexao, $sql);
$reg = pg_fetch_object($query);
print pg_unescape_bytea($reg -> field_bytea);
?>
