| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> |
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| To: | Stéphane Pinel <spinel(at)noos(dot)fr> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Handling Blobs with libpq |
| Date: | 2003-03-20 16:50:03 |
| Message-ID: | m3fzpi7zk4.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com |
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Stéphane Pinel <spinel(at)noos(dot)fr> writes:
> What is the best approach to handle blobs with libpq ?
>
> I've read in documentation that there are 2 ways:
>
> 1- Bytea
> 2- Larges objects (lo_import)
>
> My main need is storing pictures (like Jpegs etc) or small blobs. Doc
> says that (2) is more
> appropriate but I need to work with blobs in memory, not from files.
You don't have to use lo_import()--you can write from memory to a large
object using lo_write(), and read an LO (or part of one) into memory
using lo_read(). See the documentation.
-Doug
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