jtkells, 25.07.2012 03:43:
Thanks much for your reply, that does the trick quite nicely. But, I just came to the realization that this only works if your are running the client and the file both resides on the database server. I thought that I would be able to do this from a remote server where the client was running, picking up a local file and sending it into a remote database table.
If you can use a different client, you might want to look at SQL Workbench/J It has support to do just that. You can write e.g. insert into x (id, load_date, image) values (1, current_date, {$blobfile=/tmp/myimage.jpg}); and the file will be read from the client (where SQL Workbench is running). (note that "large objects" are _not_ supported, only bytea) http://www.sql-workbench.net/ http://www.sql-workbench.net/manual/using.html#blob-support It's Java/JDBC based, has a GUI and console mode. Disclaimer: I am the author of that tool. Regards Thomas -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general