Guys, I have a number of jpegs and tiffs that are stored in a bytea field in a PostgreSQL database by a Java program using Hibernate. I need to copy these out to a flat file via pgsql for viewing, etc. I've tried psql -c 'select binarydata_field from my_image_table where id=1' mydb > flatfile but although that seems to provide the data it does not seem to pull it in a valid image format. Is there some special handling I need to do here? Thanks! John ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly