Re: bytea on windows perl client

James Orr <james(at)lrgmail(dot)com> writes:
> I have some code which runs fine on linux. It simply pulls a png from a bytea
> column and displays it.

> Now I need to get it running on windows. We have installed ActiveState perl
> with the DBI module and downloaded and installed the DBD-Pg binary.
> Connections to the database are working fine, but the png file is getting
> corrupted.

> Anybody know the work-around?

I'd bet money that the problem is a newline conversion issue --- you
could check by noticing whether the PNG signature (first 8 bytes of the
file) comes back correctly or not. The signature is designed to get
changed if it's fed through any of the standard kinds of newline
conversion (\n -> \r\n, for example).

Not that this gives any immediate suggestion for a fix, but
understanding what is happening is always a good first step.

regards, tom lane