Re: store data files encryptypted in database.

On 10/10/2008 16:32, elmarkivp wrote:
> $sql = "INSERT INTO SOME_TABLE (bytea_file) VALUES
> (pgp_sym_decrypt_bytea($file,somepass,cipher-algo=aes256))";
> pg_query($link, $sql) or die(pg_last_error($link));
>
> this error appear...
>
> ERROR: column "content_of_bytea_file" does not exist (
> "content_of_bytea_file" is $file)

At a guess, you need to quote the contents of $file in order to get PG
to treat it as a string. If you don't, PG sees it as a column name,
hence the error you're seeing.

Ray.

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