From: "vijaykumar M" <m_vijaykumar@hotmail.com>
To: ch@rodos.fzk.de
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how to read bytea contents by using pgsql scripts
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:47:42 +0000
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Hi Christoph,
    Thanks for ur reply.
    Let me explain my problem..., In one of my table.. we used bytea 
datatype for one field.. actaully i want  to  know the original stored 
contents (not in byte's) from that field by using pgsql scripts.

Thanks in advance..

With regards
Vijay


>From: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
>To: m_vijaykumar@hotmail.com (vijaykumar M)
>CC: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [SQL] how to read bytea contents by using pgsql scripts
>Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:26:02 MET
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >   Is their any way to read the bytea contents by using pgsql script.
> >
> > Thanks & regards
> > Vijay
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> >
>Not sure if that's what you are asking for but you can do e.g.
>
>$PGSQLD/bin/psql -d <your-dbase-name> -f ./query2.txt >  ./query2.res
>
>./query2.txt has something like
>select * from bytea_tab ;
>
>then you'll find all non-printables in  ./query2.res
>properly escaped as octets as shown in Data Types - Binary Strings.
>
>HTH
>
>Regards, Christoph
>
>
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