Re: Download file from COPY ... TO with pgadmin

> On 31/01/2023 14:02 CET Marco Lechner <mlechner(at)bfs(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Using COPY …TO it is possible to store e.g. the “value” of a bytea cell in a
> directory on the server. E.g. by this:
>
> COPY (SELECT content FROM d_doc WHERE id = 'x123456') TO CONCAT('/tmp/mydoc.pdf’) (FORMAT binary);
>
> As we do not have access to the postgresql fileserver (ssh, …), but can SELECT
> the value of the bytea cell, is It possible to download the bytea directly
> into a file on a client computer when using pgadmin? Is there a solution with
> the COPY … TO command, any pgadmin specific feature or any other simple solution?

Use psql with \copy which targets the client file system. pgAdmin 5.4+ can also
launch psql.

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Erik