ok...jeff thank you very much.
I checked in pg_hba.conf and reloaded again and did now working fine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Frost" <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
To: "sandhya" <sandhyar@amiindia.co.in>
Cc: "Postgres" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Fw: lo_import problem
> This worked fine for me on a freshly installed 8.0.3 on Windows XP:
>
> pics=# INSERT into images VALUES ( lo_import('C:\\Program
Files\\PostgreSQL\\8.0\\Installation Notes.rtf'), 'notes');
>
> "could not open server file" means that either the file does not exist, or
the
> user you are trying to access the file as does not have the rights to read
it.
>
> Again, check your permissions as I mentioned to you earlier.
>
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Jeff Frost wrote:
>
> > This is what works for me from the command line on Linux with PG 8.0.3:
> >
> > INSERT into images VALUES ( lo_import('/tmp/white.jpg'), 'white');
> >
> > What version of postgresql are you using?
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, sandhya wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> When i am using lo_import to load files into the database i am getting
the
> >> following error.....
> >> Please help me what i need to do
> >>
> >> Insert into sampletbl values(lo_import('c:\\sample.txt'),'sample.txt');
> >>
> >> ERROR: function lo_import ("unknown") does not exist
> >> HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You may
need
> >> to ad
> >> d explicit type casts.
> >
> >
>
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