Re: Image Insert Postgresql DB

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:51 am, sreejith s wrote:

> Query to insert
> ----------------
> INSERT INTO Imagetable VALUES (lo_import('C:\\image\\peach.jpg'));

have you succeeded in inserting an image into the database from a file on the
server using the above query? AFAIK you need a bytea datatype, and also the
image data has to be properly escaped (\\) before pg will accept it. I assume
you are using a scripting language with a dbapi. Your steps would be:

1. read the image file into a variable
2. escape the image data
3. insert this into the database in a bytea field

if you follow this procedure it is irrelevant as to where the source file is
- client or server

regards
kg