For blobs, you need to use oid as the type, then use the lo_ funtions.
I'm not sure how you would do this in php3 as I only do simple stuff and
haven't had the need, but in theory it should be possible as I have
managed to upload files to a php3 script before.
Peter
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Peter Mount
Enterprise Support
Maidstone Borough Council
Any views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anjan Borthakur [mailto:anjan@bombay.retortsoft.com]
Sent: 26 October 1999 11:38
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: [INTERFACES] uploading & downloading files from database
hi everybody,
i am using posgresql backend with php3 & apache.
i want to upload & downloading files from or into database
what sort of datatype should i use? postgres doesn't seem to have
blob(binary large object support).how do i go about it?
any help?
-anjan
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