On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Jerry LeVan wrote:
> 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