On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:21:49PM +0200, Eric Mauvire wrote: > i am trying to retrieve binary content of a bytea field (or postgis > geometry field) with a binary cursor with PHP : > > $sql="BEGIN;DECLARE mycursor BINARY CURSOR FOR SELECT shape FROM $layerName; fetch all in mycursor;" > ....pg_query... > > But my shape field shows only two bytes of data. The PHP source code (ext/pgsql/pgsql.c) doesn't have any calls to PQfformat or PQbinaryTuples so PHP appears to expect text data. Looks like you'll have to fetch data in text format and use pg_unescape_bytea. Maybe the PHP developers would consider adding support for binary data (or maybe they already have and rejected the idea; I don't know). Try asking on a PHP mailing list. -- Michael Fuhr
