Re: Importing BLOB to Postgresql

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: Alexander Stanier <alexander(dot)stanier(at)egsgroup(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Importing BLOB to Postgresql
Date: 2002-10-08 13:58:28
Message-ID: 1034085508.6801.21.camel@camel
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You probably want to use bytea. Look up blob and lo_import in the
interactive docs for quite a bit more information.

Robert Treat

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 06:02, Alexander Stanier wrote:
>
> I am migrating a database from Oracle to Postgresql. I have one Oracle
> table which contains BLOBs. Given that I can get the BLOBs out of Oracle
> to the filesystem, can anyone tell me how I can import them in
> postgresql?
>
> I am assuming that the BLOBs should be imported into a "bytea" datatype.
> Is this correct?
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex.
>

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