On 12/09/2016 08:27 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 12/9/16 9:39 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>> SELECT image FROM accounts WHERE id = xxx
>> \gstore_binary ~/image.png
>>
>> What do you think about this proposal?
>
> Seems reasonable.
>
> I've lost track at this point... is there a way to go the other
> direction with that as well? Namely, stick the contents of a file into
> a field via an INSERT or UPDATE?
>
> I've done that in the past via psql -v var=`cat file`, but there's
> obviously some significant drawbacks to that...
It all looks eerily familiar ...
cheers
andrew