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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 10:46:16 -0800 (PST)
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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`.
Arthur Lewis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Klaver" <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
To: "Arthur Lewis" <arthur.lewis@hypermediasystems.com>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 10:20:43 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] insert a text file into a variable in order to insert into a bytea column
On 01/28/2016 10:10 AM, Arthur Lewis wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a file called file.txt that is 53604 bytes. When I do the following
>
> \set stext `cat file.txt`
>
> select length(:'stext'); length
> --------
> 53603
>
> it seems that one byte (the last newline character) is chomped off. How can I import a text file into a variable and insert it into a bytea column without losing the last newline byte.
Are sure it is not cat that is chomping the byte?:
aklaver@killi:~> cat test.txt
Test
second line
aklaver@killi:~> cat -A test.txt
Test$
second line$
>
> What I want to do is something like this:
>
> \set stext `cat file.txt`
> insert into stored_files (file_name,file_text) values ('file',:'stext');
>
> without losing a character within the variable stext.
>
> In table stored_files, file_name is text and file_text is bytea.
>
> I'm using psql 9.3.10 on Ubuntu 14 Linux (32 bit.)
> I cannot use pg_read_file because that is for the server side, and I'm on the client side.
>
> There should be an easy way to get a text file into a database column.
>
> Thank you,
> Arthur Lewis
>
>
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
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