Re: [HACKERS] proposal: psql statements \gstore \gstore_binary(instead COPY RAW) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [HACKERS] proposal: psql statements \gstore \gstore_binary(instead COPY RAW)
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Msg-id 9b767472-7ef5-64ac-a573-4252a9a6ddc3@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] proposal: psql statements \gstore \gstore_binary(instead COPY RAW)  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
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On 12/09/2016 08:27 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 12/9/16 9:39 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>> SELECT image FROM accounts WHERE id = xxx
>> \gstore_binary ~/image.png
>>
>> What do you think about this proposal?
>
> Seems reasonable.
>
> I've lost track at this point... is there a way to go the other 
> direction with that as well? Namely, stick the contents of a file into 
> a field via an INSERT or UPDATE?
>
> I've done that in the past via psql -v var=`cat file`, but there's 
> obviously some significant drawbacks to that...


It all looks eerily familiar ...

cheers

andrew



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