I have been working to create a VB6 program to automatically create a PostgreSQL database, tables and triggers for an application I am updating. I have everything working great, except one of my tables needs to store a bitmap image. I am using the Large Object (lo) contrib module to do this. Using pgAdmin III, I can run the Query Tool and load the lo.sql file from the \share\contrib folder and execute it on my database and it succeeds. What I need to be able to do is load this contrib module on the fly from VB6 after creating my database. Using the content of the lo.sql file, I created the following code: Private Function AddLargeObjectDataType(connConnection As ADODB.Connection) As Boolean Dim cmdCommand As New ADODB.Command With cmdCommand .ActiveConnection = conConnection .CommandType = adCmdText .CommandText = "SET search_path = public; CREATE DOMAIN lo AS pg_catalog.oid;" _ & "CREATE FUNCTION lo_oid(lo) RETURNS pg_catalog.oid AS" _ & "'SELECT $1::pg_catalog.oid' LANGUAGE SQL STRICT IMMUTABLE;" _ & "CREATE FUNCTION lo_manage() RETURNS pg_catalog.trigger" _ & "AS '$libdir/lo' LANGUAGE C;" Call .Execute End With Set cmdCommand = Nothing End Function However, when I execute this code, I get a SQL "syntax error at or near '$libdir/lo'" and the contrib module is not loaded. So I tried using a hard coded path 'C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\lib\lo' instead of '$libdir/lo' and it also fails. I tried using double backslashes, same result. Forward slashes, same result. Any ideas? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Add-Large-Object-support-to-database-programmatically-tp25283311p25283311.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general