Subject: Re: insert a text file into a variable in order to insert into
 a bytea column
To: Arthur Lewis <arthur.lewis@hypermediasystems.com>
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From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:08:03 -0800
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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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