Record

I am not sure I understand what you mean. However if you are wanting to store an image in a table you have 2 options:

1. bytea fields.
2. large objects.

Bytea is probably the way to go... look it up in the docs...

Regards,

Aasmund.

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 00:14:23 -0300, "BNT SOFT" <julio@bntsoft.com.br> wrote:

Hi, I am developing an application in delphi using the postgresql, I am not getting to record an image, I am using the type OID, but I didn't have success ties now.
It would like you to help me, therefore I don't know how to use those commands.

Thank you for the attention,

Almeida Julio, S�o Paulo - Brazil

Aasmund Midttun Godal

aasmund@godal.com - http://www.godal.com/
+47 40 45 20 46

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aasmund Midttun Godal wrote:

I am not sure I understand what you mean. However if you are wanting to store an image in a table you have 2 options:

1. bytea fields.
2. large objects.

Third option is to encode the image (base64?) and then store as text.
It's probably slower (since you have to decode it everytime), uses much
more space, but you don't have to worry about escaping the byte
sequence.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]atentus.com>)
Jajaja! Solo hablaba en serio!

Escaping the byte sequence is quite simple:

s/([^\w])/sprintf("\\%03o", ord($1))/eg;
(in perl).

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:22:39 -0300 (CLST), Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com> wrote:

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aasmund Midttun Godal wrote:

Third option is to encode the image (base64?) and then store as text.
It's probably slower (since you have to decode it everytime), uses much
more space, but you don't have to worry about escaping the byte
sequence.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]atentus.com>)
Jajaja! Solo hablaba en serio!

Aasmund Midttun Godal

aasmund@godal.com - http://www.godal.com/
+47 40 45 20 46

If you're using Perl and the DBD::Pg driver, then you can use bytea without
worrying about escaping anything, since the driver takes care of it.

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre%atentus.com@interlock.lexmark.com> on 10/24/2001
10:22:39 AM

To: Aasmund Midttun Godal <postgresql%envisity.com@interlock.lexmark.com>
cc: julio%bntsoft.com.br@interlock.lexmark.com,
pgsql-general%postgresql.org@interlock.lexmark.com (bcc: Wesley
Sheldahl/Lex/Lexmark)
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Record

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aasmund Midttun Godal wrote:

I am not sure I understand what you mean. However if you are wanting to store

an image in a table you have 2 options:

1. bytea fields.
2. large objects.

Third option is to encode the image (base64?) and then store as text.
It's probably slower (since you have to decode it everytime), uses much
more space, but you don't have to worry about escaping the byte
sequence.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]atentus.com>)
Jajaja! Solo hablaba en serio!

It handles the unescaping, but you have to escape to update/insert, I use:

s/([^\w])/sprintf("\\%03o", ord($1))/eg;

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:42:31 -0400, wsheldah@lexmark.com wrote:

If you're using Perl and the DBD::Pg driver, then you can use bytea without
worrying about escaping anything, since the driver takes care of it.

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre%atentus.com@interlock.lexmark.com> on 10/24/2001
10:22:39 AM

To: Aasmund Midttun Godal <postgresql%envisity.com@interlock.lexmark.com>
cc: julio%bntsoft.com.br@interlock.lexmark.com,
pgsql-general%postgresql.org@interlock.lexmark.com (bcc: Wesley
Sheldahl/Lex/Lexmark)
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Record

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aasmund Midttun Godal wrote:

an image in a table you have 2 options:

Third option is to encode the image (base64?) and then store as text.
It's probably slower (since you have to decode it everytime), uses much
more space, but you don't have to worry about escaping the byte
sequence.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]atentus.com>)
Jajaja! Solo hablaba en serio!

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Aasmund Midttun Godal

aasmund@godal.com - http://www.godal.com/
+47 40 45 20 46

It handles the unescaping, but you have to escape to update/insert, I use:

s/([^\w])/sprintf("\\%03o", ord($1))/eg;

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:42:31 -0400, wsheldah@lexmark.com wrote:

If you're using Perl and the DBD::Pg driver, then you can use bytea without
worrying about escaping anything, since the driver takes care of it.

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre%atentus.com@interlock.lexmark.com> on 10/24/2001
10:22:39 AM

To: Aasmund Midttun Godal <postgresql%envisity.com@interlock.lexmark.com>
cc: julio%bntsoft.com.br@interlock.lexmark.com,
pgsql-general%postgresql.org@interlock.lexmark.com (bcc: Wesley
Sheldahl/Lex/Lexmark)
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Record

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aasmund Midttun Godal wrote:

an image in a table you have 2 options:

Third option is to encode the image (base64?) and then store as text.
It's probably slower (since you have to decode it everytime), uses much
more space, but you don't have to worry about escaping the byte
sequence.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]atentus.com>)
Jajaja! Solo hablaba en serio!

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Aasmund Midttun Godal

aasmund@godal.com - http://www.godal.com/
+47 40 45 20 46

No, you don't, just bind variable as SQL_BINARY, and it'll do the escaping
on its own. Search archives. :)

-alex
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Aasmund Midttun Godal wrote:

[Checking memory... can't remember ... checking code...]

Looks like I'm using DBI's bind_param instead, after the prepare and before the
execute statement. TMTOWTDI. :-)

$sth->bind_param(1, $my_binary_data, SQL_BINARY);

--Wes

"Aasmund Midttun Godal" <postgresql%envisity.com@interlock.lexmark.com> on
10/24/2001 06:41:11 PM

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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Record

It handles the unescaping, but you have to escape to update/insert, I use:

s/([^\w])/sprintf("\\%03o", ord($1))/eg;