On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Arthur Lewis <
arthur(dot)lewis(at)hypermediasystems(dot)com> wrote:
> postgres=> \set stext `cat file.txt`
> postgres=> select octet_length(:'stext');
> octet_length
> --------------
> 53603
>
> in my shell I did the following:
> $ ls -l file.txt
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 alewis alewis 53604 Jan 27 08:30 file.txt
>
> I'm still one byte short. So the problem has to be either the \set
> command chomping it or cat. I just tested cat and that seems to be working.
>
>
Or the "back-ticks" implementation...
David J.