Re: Display Bytea field

I bet Image*Source* doesn't contain what you think it does. I'd query that
table using SSMS, to see what's really in that column.

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM Andy Hartman <hartman60home(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> I still have csv files and loaded right into PG no decoding and look like
> this little snippet and I did the COpy command into PG
>
> "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/11/25 03:05, Andy Hartman wrote:
>> > I used PS to pull the data from mssql to Postgres dumping data to csv.
>> > I then used csv to load Postgres and the table that has Bytea
>>
>> What data type was used to store data in MySQL?
>>
>> Show command used to pull data from MySQL.
>>
>> >
>> > # Convert the image data to a base64 string -- powershell
>> > $base64Image = [Convert]::ToBase64String($row.ImageSource)
>> >
>> > AFter data was loaded the developer said in his app frontend that the
>> > Image wouldn't open thru his code. -- I'm trying to get that code to
>> > help debug
>> >
>> > He said the size of the array is 1368. from bytea The size coming from
>>
>> How does an array enter into this?
>>
>>
>> > the SQL-Server db is 46935 and the image correctly appears...
>> >
>> > Could that be caused by my PS dump to csv process or maybe still a
>> > code(frontend) issue..
>> >
>> > Still trying to figure out using a single record if data loaded to the
>> > bytea field matches the mssql record.
>> >
>> > I tried to use the tool SimplySql to connect mssql to postgresql to
>> > transfer data but it failed ...
>> >
>> > any help would be appreciated..
>>
>

>
>> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name
>> > <mailto:ewie(at)ewie(dot)name>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 2025-01-09 21:31 +0100, Andy Hartman wrote:
>> > > could it be done using Powershell?
>> >
>> > I use this: https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2021/04/psql-binary.html
>> > <https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2021/04/psql-binary.html>
>> > But I don't know if that translates to PowerShell.
>> >
>>
>
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