* DimitryASuplatov:
> I`ve also worked out how to do this simply from bash
>
> ./bin/psql mypdb <<EOF
> insert into pdb values ('`cat /file/name`');
> EOF
This doesn't work if the file contains embedded "'" characters (and
backslashes and NULs are also problematic). You will also get errors
if the file encoding does not match the database encoding.
You probably should use a BYTEA column and a little Perl script which
uses bind_param to specify a type of PG_BYTEA for the parameter.
