Re: how to extract data from bytea so it is be used in blob for mysql database

Hi George,
This is my guess to the cause of the problem (I could be wrong).

You edited the pg_dump generated sql file to suit to suit the
requirements of your target server (MySQL), during this edition, your
editor may have inserted line terminators where it found long sentences,
this long sentences may have been the contents of your bytea column(s)
thereby changing the data of the bytea column(s).

Allan.

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM, George Kao <george(dot)kao(at)group-upc(dot)com>
wrote:
> The platform is WinXP. I have database with fields of bytea in Posgresql
> 8.1. The objective was to transfer the entire databasae (schema + data)
> to Mysql 5.1. I used the pg_dump from Posgresql 8.1 to extract the
> schema and data. With some minor touch-up of the sql script generated, I
> am able to run the script with mysql.exe to store the database except
> for the bytea data...
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] how to extract data from bytea so it is be used
> in blob for mysql database
>
> On 13/05/2009 21:56, George Kao wrote:
>> I used pg_dump to extract the data from my database with bytea fields
>> (having pictures) in plain text format. I encoutered some problems to
>> restore those bytea data to the blobs field in a Mysql database. Any
> advice?
>
> A bit more detail would be nice.... we're only guessing otherwise.
>
> - Platform(s)?
> - Version?
> - Commands executed?
> - Error messages?
> - Log entries?
> - ....
>
> Ray.
>
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