Re: [DEFAULT] Daily digest v1.4551 (20 messages)

From: Jerry LeVan <jerry(dot)levan(at)eku(dot)edu>
To: daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org
Cc: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [DEFAULT] Daily digest v1.4551 (20 messages)
Date: 2004-07-28 19:45:10
Message-ID: A2AF1F4F-E0CE-11D8-BC31-000393779D9C@eku.edu
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Thank you Daniel,

Is it the case that "insert" could be used in a similiar
fashion to load the bytea field?

Jerry

On Jul 28, 2004, at 3:07 PM,Daniel Verite wrote:

>
> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:45:10 +0200
> From: "Daniel Verite" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>
> To: "Postgres General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: Loading/Retrieving bytea fields?
> Message-ID: <20040728164529(dot)5143560(at)uruguay(dot)brainstorm(dot)fr>
>
> Jerry LeVan writes
>
>> Has anyone found some C code that shows how to load/extract data from
>> a
>> bytea column?
>
> This works for me:
>
> int size;
> const char* contents;
> PGresult* res;
> res = PQexecParams(pgconn,
> "SELECT contents FROM tblob WHERE pkey=value",
> 0, NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL, /* no input parameters */
> 1 /* output in binary format */ );
>
> if (res && PQresultStatus(res)==PGRES_TUPLES_OK) {
> size = PQgetlength(res, 0, 0);
> contents = PQgetvalue(res, 0, 0); /* binary representation */
> }
>
> I believe that you may also use the plain PQexec instead of
> PQexecParams,
> but then you would have to call PQunescapeBytea() on the bytea column
> in the
> results, so it's likely to be less efficient. I haven't tried that,
> though.
>

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