Copying bytea data out via pgsql - Mailing list pgsql-general

Guys,

I have a number of jpegs and tiffs that are stored in a bytea field in a
PostgreSQL database by a Java program using Hibernate.

I need to copy these out to a flat file via pgsql for viewing, etc.  I've
tried

psql -c 'select binarydata_field from my_image_table where id=1' mydb >
flatfile

but although that seems to provide the data it does not seem to pull it in
a valid image format.  Is there some special handling I need to do here?

Thanks!
John