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From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: beyaNet Consultancy <beyanet@ntlworld.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Read bytea column from table and convert into base64.....
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 09:24:23 +0200 (EET)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403080923390.29173-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30AF055A-6F01-11D8-B866-0003938366A4@ntlworld.com>

O kyrios beyaNet Consultancy egrapse stis Mar 5, 2004 :

> Hi,
> I have a bytea column which I want to convert into base64. At the 
> moment I am reading the bytea colum into my java app as a byte[]. I am 
> then calling another static method to convert the byte[] into base64. I 
> want postgreSQl to handle the conversion so my app can read in the 
> base64 string.
> 
> So for example:
> 
> select (base64)byteaColumn from tableName where artistID = x

You can use encode function as :

select encode(byteaColumn,'base64') from tableName where artistID = x

> 
> many thanks in advance
> 
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-Achilleus




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