Re: Image insertion by using BLOB

Quoting Som <shekhar(at)easi(dot)soft(dot)net>:

> Hi ALL,
> I am trying to insert the image from the client to database by
> spicifying the Windows NT machine filepath.
> The server(postgresql 7.0) is situated at the linux.
> If filepath is linux m/c's then i can ...
> If filepath is winNT then i have Exception saying :
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> ERROR: lo_import : ca't open unix file "/jigsaw/jigsaw/www/som.gif "
> No such file or directory
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> Query is as follows::
> insert into tablename values('som', lo_import('PATH'));

lo_import only works on the servers filesystem.

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> If possible , how ?

You need to use the fastpath/largeobject api's to send the image over the
network connection.

There's 2 C & 1 Java examples included in the source showing this.

Peter

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