Re: Picture with Postgres and Delphi

I thought "bytea" was PG's version of BLOBs. I don't see a "blob" type in the
current docs.

Also, I saw your example code as well. I use Perl as well but I use the native
Pg.pm module. There doesn't seem to be a way to switch the input to binary data
but there is support for what is called "large object" which is I think what I
might want. If you or anyone else out there has worked with bytea's with
module, I appreciate some direction and any other wisdom (e.g. pros/cons,
catch22's, etc). Thanks!

Learning everyday...

Quoting Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb(at)eskimo(dot)com>:

> > I'll try that out. I'll have to research that base64 encoding part because
> I'll
> > only every do text dumps.
>
> Oh yea, I forgot, bytea columns come out just fine in text dumps (BLOBs
> don't, however).
>
> Jon
> >
> > Keith-
> >
> > Quoting Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann(at)yahoo(dot)com>:
> >
> > > --- Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb(at)eskimo(dot)com> wrote:
> > > > I'm a big fan of bytea. In every case where I've
> > > > done the filesystem
> > > > method I wished I hadn't.
> > >
> > > For the education of me and maybe others too, why was
> > > that? i.e. what problems did you run into, that bytea avoids?
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