plperlu user function.

Greetings,

I am trying to write a user function on the server to retrive image
files. Currently I wrote the following:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION perl_getfile(text)
RETURNS OID AS
$BODY$
my $tmpfile = shift;
open my $IFHAND, '<', $tmpfile
or elog(ERROR, qq{could not open the file "$tmpfile": $!});
binmode $IFHAND;
my $result = '';
while(my $buffer = <$IFHAND>)
{
$result .= $buffer;
}
return $result;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'plperlu';

on the client I do (PHP sniplet):
$result = pg_query($dbcnx, "SELECT
perl_getfile('/home/harel/Misc/At_work.jpg')");

and I get an error:
Warning: pg_query() [function.pg-query
<http://localhost/mysqlImage1/function.pg-query>]: Query failed: ERROR:
invalid input syntax for type oid: "ÿØÿà" in
/home/harel/Prj/php/testImages/mysqlImage1/image.php

Any recommendation how to do it right?

--
Regards.

David Harel,

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