Re: [ADMIN] Bytea question

2007-04-11 Thread Mike Goldner
It sounds like you want to parse the contents of the bytea column within a trigger/stored procedure. I haven't done this myself (I process the bytea data in java as an input stream after retrieving it from postgres), but you could probably use a FOR loop over the bytea column and then use some com

Re: [ADMIN] Bytea question

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
What I am needing to do is to store a file I receive, say file1.dat. I want to store file1.dat into a bytea field so we can always go back and retrieve the original file to verify if needed. However, I also need to process the data that is in file1.dat (1234 johnny 1254.12). When I load file1.d

Re: [ADMIN] Bytea question

2007-04-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Chris Hoover escribió: > No, I need to store the entire file as received into the database. Then you original question does not make any sense to me, because if you pass the entire file content, why would Postgres *not* be able to read it? > On 4/11/07, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [ADMIN] Bytea question

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
No, I need to store the entire file as received into the database. Chris On 4/11/07, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Hoover escribió: > Hopefully a quick question. > > If I store a file into a bytea field, is there anyway for postgres to read > the contents of the file? When y

Re: [ADMIN] Bytea question

2007-04-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Chris Hoover escribió: > Hopefully a quick question. > > If I store a file into a bytea field, is there anyway for postgres to read > the contents of the file? When you say "store a file", do you mean "store a filename"? > Here is my scenario: > > Receive text file > insert file into bytea fiel

[ADMIN] Bytea question

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
Hopefully a quick question. If I store a file into a bytea field, is there anyway for postgres to read the contents of the file? Here is my scenario: Receive text file insert file into bytea field insert trigger fires - read file contents - post contents into production tables Is this at all