On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Roger Mason wrote:
I want to write a file into a database from python using psycopg.
You don't use lo_import directly for that. There is an example program included with psycopg that shows the right syntax to insert a file. For psycopg1, see bytea.py ; for psycopg2 look at binary.py
curs.execute("INSERT INTO diamonds VALUES (%s, \lo_import(%s))",(iname, image)) psycopg2.ProgrammingError: syntax error at or near "\" at character 50
Just so you know, the commands starting with \ like \lo_import are specific to the psql client. None of those will work if you use another tool to connect.
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