Re: file in posgres

Including -admin back in the discussion...

Well, binary data in XML needs to be uuencoded afaik, and of course you'll want to put it in a CDATA block.

PostgreSQL doesn't have any XML support built-in, but there's at least one project that has stuff to help deal with XML. I think it's in pgFoundry, though there may be some stuff in contrib as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Rodriguez Arias [mailto:alainrod(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 3:10 PM
To: Jim Nasby
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] file in posgres

Naybe you missunderstood me, i need to export all the data of a table into an XML format, and I'm afraid to have any trouble with the bytea data type that I use to store files. Can't you tell if there is any problem with that and if not how do I do the export to XML???

On 12/19/05, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 02:45:08PM -0800, Alain Rodriguez Arias wrote:
> Hi everybody:
> I need that somebody tell me if there is any way to save a file of any kind
> in a field of a database in posgres??

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/datatype-binary.html

> I also need to convert the data of a tble into XML???

No reason to do that in the database... though if you end up storing XML
you should just stick it in a text field.
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