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To: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: insert a text file into a variable in order to insert into a bytea column
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:08:18 -0800 (PST)
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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.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Klaver" <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
To: "Arthur Lewis" <arthur.lewis@hypermediasystems.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 12:08:03 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] insert a text file into a variable in order to insert into a bytea column
On 01/28/2016 10:46 AM, Arthur Lewis wrote:
> Hi,
> In my shell I did the following
>
> $ cat file > file.temp
> $ ls -l file file.temp
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 alewis alewis 53604 Jan 27 08:30 file
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 alewis alewis 53604 Jan 28 10:28 file.temp
> $ diff file file.temp
> $
>
> So at least in the shell the cat command isn't losing a byte at the end of the file like in psql \set x `cat file`.
Hmm, well there went that theory;)
What happens if you do?:
select octet_length(:'stext');
>
> Arthur Lewis
>
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