Re: Display Bytea field

On 1/11/25 03:05, Andy Hartman wrote:
> I used PS to pull the data from mssql  to Postgres dumping data to csv. 
> I then used csv to load Postgres and the table that has Bytea

What data type was used to store data in MySQL?

Show command used to pull data from MySQL.

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> # Convert the image data to a base64 string  -- powershell
>      $base64Image = [Convert]::ToBase64String($row.ImageSource)
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> AFter data was loaded the developer said in his app frontend that the 
> Image wouldn't open thru his code. -- I'm trying to get that code to 
> help debug
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> He said the size of the array is 1368. from bytea The size coming from 

How does an array enter into this?


> the SQL-Server db is 46935 and the image correctly appears...
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> Could that be caused by my PS dump to csv process or maybe still a 
> code(frontend) issue..
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> Still trying to figure out using a single record if data loaded to the 
> bytea field matches the mssql record.
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> I tried to use the tool SimplySql to connect mssql to postgresql to 
> transfer data but it failed  ...
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> any help would be appreciated..
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> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name 
> <mailto:ewie@ewie.name>> wrote:
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>     On 2025-01-09 21:31 +0100, Andy Hartman wrote:
>      > could it be done using Powershell?
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>     I use this: https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2021/04/psql-binary.html
>     <https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2021/04/psql-binary.html>
>     But I don't know if that translates to PowerShell.
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>     -- 
>     Erik Wienhold
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