Re: proposal: psql statements \gstore \gstore_binary (instead COPY RAW)

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal: psql statements \gstore \gstore_binary (instead COPY RAW)
Date: 2016-12-10 01:27:21
Message-ID: dba1dfaa-a304-c996-cec7-ae93c2ab8d1c@BlueTreble.com
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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...
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