On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Neanderthelle Jones wrote: > So it seems to us that the lo_export output can't be piped (via a > named pipe) to another process that reads from the pipe and expects > the valid BLOB contents. I should have said that the BLOB is a PDF and the file that results from cat fifo >my.pdf is a valid PDF file (containing only an image object) that xpdf displays and prints. But that is after the adornment has gone to the console. Elle -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general