Mladen Gogala <mladen.gogala@vmsinfo.com> writes:
> Madhu Ramachandran wrote:
>> i have a table with OID column.. I want to use the copy command to
>> insert bunch of rows (1 million).
>> but iam unable to specify the correct format for the oid type (i have
>> .jpg files to be stored in this column)..
> Huh? oid is a keyword, an automatically generated row id, and is
> deprecated. You shouldn't be doing anything with it, much less copying it.
I think what the OP actually means is he's thinking of importing some
images as large objects, then storing their OIDs in a user (not system)
column of type oid. COPY can't be used for that though.
It might be better to use a bytea column, if you're willing to deal with
bytea's weird escaping rules.
regards, tom lane