Re: Combining images - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Steve Crawford
Subject Re: Combining images
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Msg-id 200506240852.07258.scrawford@pinpointresearch.com
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In response to Combining images  (Johan De Koning <ikbennuook@gmail.com>)
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On Friday 24 June 2005 4:03 am, Johan De Koning wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Inside my postgres database i want to store images of doors,
> windows etc together with a specification of how a building face
> looks like (so on which position is the door, etc). When i am doing
> a select i want to combine the different images so that one image
> is given back per face.
>
> Is there an extension for Postgres to make this possible? I heard
> something about Oracle which has the techniques available to
> combine images within the database. BTW the new images should not
> be stored by now inside the database, so there is no caching.

That sort of operation is much better handled by a client application.
Imagemagick (http://imagemagick.org) is a fantastic tool for scripted
image manipulation.

Cheers,
Steve


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