Re: Image in postgresql 7.3

Peerri (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:

> I'm with problems to record images in database in field type bytea.
> I'm using visual basic 6.0 and object ado stream to convert binary.
>
> They say me if another way exists to record the images in the data base.

This may not be for the faint of heart, but what I do is uuencode images
and store them in TEXT type columns. I started doing this because (and
here my memory may not be serving me with clear fidelity) I got the
impression from documentation when I first started using PG several
years ago that there was some "gotcha" related to BLOBs or BYTEA type
columns in the pg_dump/pg_restore process. This approach has worked for
my needs (mugshots and scanned written signatures), and so I never
revisited the implementation.