to unescape_bytea use stripcslashes(). If you need to escape bytea and don't have pg_escape_bytea() function then use:
function escByteA($binData) {
/**
* \134 = 92 = backslash, \000 = 00 = NULL, \047 = 39 = Single Quote
*
* str_replace() replaces the searches array in order. Therefore, we must
* process the 'backslash' character first. If we process it last, it'll
* replace all the escaped backslashes from the other searches that came
* before.
*/
$search = array(chr(92), chr(0), chr(39));
$replace = array('\\\134', '\\\000', '\\\047');
$binData = str_replace($search, $replace, $binData);
return $binData;
//echo "<pre>$binData</pre>";
//exit;
}