I use php and pg_unescape_bytea 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.pg-unescape-bytea.php

You also need to set bytea format to escaped in front of your query. 

If php can be en option ....

/Nicklas Avén

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<div>-------- Originalmeddelande --------</div><div>Från: Jov <am...@amutu.com> 
</div><div>Datum:2014-09-18  16:55  (GMT+01:00) </div><div>Till: David Rysdam 
<drys...@ll.mit.edu>,pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org> 
</div><div>Rubrik: Re: [GENERAL] I want the stupidest possible binary export 
</div><div>
</div>psql can only input/output text string,which can not be binary 
content。with 9.2,you can encode bytea to base64,save to file,then use shell 
command to decode the file。
google “amutu.com pg bytea” can get a blog post。

with upcoming 9.4,you can change bytea to large object,then use lo_* psql cmd 
save it to file。

2014年9月18日 10:09 PM于 "David Rysdam" <drys...@ll.mit.edu>写道:
I've got a some tables with bytea fields that I want to export only the
binary data to files. (Each field has a gzipped data file.)

I really want to avoid adding overhead to my project by writing a
special program to do this, so I'm trying to do it from psql. Omitting
the obvious switches for username, etc, here's what I'm doing:

    psql -t -c "\copy (select mybinaryfield from mytable where key = 1) to
    'file'"

That works, but I get escaped bytes. I want actual binary directly out
of the DB. Another option might be:

    psql -t -c "\copy (select mybinaryfield from mytable where key = 1) to
    'file'" with format binary

However, there are two problems. First, I get an syntax error "at or
near 'format'". (Running 9.2 client and server.) And second, I suspect
that'll be some "proprietary" PG format, not the actual bytes from just
my field.

What option am I missing?


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