Re: Copying bytea data out via pgsql

John Wells wrote:

>Guys,
>
>I have a number of jpegs and tiffs that are stored in a bytea field in a
>PostgreSQL database by a Java program using Hibernate.
>
>I need to copy these out to a flat file via pgsql for viewing, etc. I've
>tried
>
>psql -c 'select binarydata_field from my_image_table where id=1' mydb >
>flatfile
>
>but although that seems to provide the data it does not seem to pull it in
>a valid image format. Is there some special handling I need to do here?
>
>Thanks!
>John
>
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You have on the flatfile info about the query
let's say

leonel=> select count (*) from image;
count
-------
1
(1 row)

you got fieldname, -------, the image and ( 1 row ) on the
flatfile file

you need to make a script to put the image on that flatfile
just read it as any query and put the contents of that field on the file

I use this little Perl Script

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use DBI qw (:sql_types);
use DBD::Pg qw ( :pg_types);

my $dbh = DBI->connect ( 'DBI:Pg:dbname=mydb;' , 'myuser','mypass');

my $sth=$dbh->prepare ("select image from image where id=1");
$sth->execute();
my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array ;

open ( OUT, ">imagefile.png");
print OUT $row[0];

close (OUT);

and that get me imagefile.png

I hope this helps

Leonel