lnunez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Leonel Nunez) writes: > John Wells wrote: > > >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? > > > > You have on the flatfile info about the query > let's say leonel=> select count (*) from image; > count > ------- > 1 > (1 row) > > > you got fieldname, -------, the image and ( 1 row ) on > the flatfile file > > you need to make a script to put the image on that flatfile > just read it as any query and put the contents of that field on the file > > I use this little Perl Script or you could use some of the other options to psql, e.g psql -A -t -c "select ..." >From the man page: -A --no-align Switches to unaligned output mode. (The default output mode is otherwise aligned.) -t --tuples-only Turn off printing of column names and result row count footers, etc. This is equivalent to the \t command. You might also want to consider the -o filename option ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster