Thanks for the reply Kris...
I guess I did not state my case very clearly, what I would
like to see is a simple flexible tool that can get binary
data into the database...I can get it out fairly easy.
Of course it would be easy to "update" pg_hba.conf if you could
write files as postgres
Jerry
On Aug 4, 2004, at 3:40 PM, Kris Jurka wrote:
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>
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Jerry LeVan wrote:
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>> INSERT INTO image (name, raster)
>> VALUES ('beautiful image', bytea_import('/etc/motd'));
>>
>> SELECT bytea_export(image.raster, '/tmp/motd') FROM image
>> WHERE name = 'beautiful image';
>>
>
> Doing this kind of file/read write is only useful if the client and
> server
> are on the same machine which is a kind of limiting restriction if you
> are
> trying to make a generic data browsing tool. Further any function that
> does file access like this must run with superuser permissions to
> prevent
> misuse which is another serious restriction.
>
> Kris Jurka
>