Re: pg_lo_import alternative ...

I'm after experiences similar to what you are describing with lo_export. I have used lo_import and ol_export to test
imagestorage and retrival. One problem that you mention is with super user access required to export to the local file
system.The second problem is that it seems to add another layer to a web application. A table constructed that contains
pointersoutside the database seems to be the easiest to deal with in terms of retrieval of images and dislpay within a
webpage. 

Anyone that that is using Postgres for storage and retrival of images please post your experiences. Thank you.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrei Bintintan [mailto:klodoma@ar-sd.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 02:20 PM
>To: 'Daniel Rubio', pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_lo_import alternative ...
>
>Are there many images?
>
>I do not suggest to store the images in the database. Better save them on
>the disk and in the database save only the path to the image. Think also to
>the size of the dump(with images).
>
>It is more easy to handle this way.
>
>This is my opinion.
>
>Best regards.
>Andy.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Daniel Rubio" <drubior@tinet.org>
>To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 3:58 PM
>Subject: [ADMIN] pg_lo_import alternative ...
>
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> One of our clients wants to store images into his postgres database
>> hosted by us.
>>
>> To do this is trying to use the PHP function pg_lo_import, receiving
>> this error message from server:
>>
>> Waning: pg_query() [function.pg-query]: Query failed: ERROR: You must
>> have Postgres superuser privilege to use server-side lo_import(). Anyone
>> can use the client-side lo_import() provided by libpq. . in
>> /apps/web/html/funcions.php on line 121
>>
>> I can read that there's a client-side function in libpq, but I can't
>> find any information about it and their use.
>>
>> Anyone knows something?
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