Hey, I'm trying to write some plpython procedures that read binary data from images on the disk and store it in bytea fields. I'm basically trying to write a plpython procedure that accepts a varchar and returns a bytea, with these procedure contents:
data = file(args[0]).read() return data
(The actual procedure will have more in it, but that's the tricky part). But the returned data is always severely truncated. Is returning a bytea from plpython impossible, or is there some way I should escape the data string? I've tried using the built in encode and decode functions, but they don't seem to help. If worse comes to worse, I can store the base64 encoded version, of course, but I'd rather not do that. Any ideas?