Re: [GENERAL] DISPLAYING BLOBS/images/text

1999-01-22 Thread Dustin Sallings
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Martin Wong wrote: # it seems to work fine but it is an extra overhead when it creates a tmp # file. How can this be cached? Or can it be directed directly to the web # page instead of having to go through another step of createing a temp # file. Your application sh

Re: [GENERAL] DISPLAYING BLOBS/images/text

1999-01-22 Thread Gilles Darold
Hi, You can use the lo_open() - lo_read() - lo_write() - lo_seek() C like functions that allow to read, write and more directly into your blobs and so display data on the fly... This is already in the documentation - PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide - Chapter 15. Large Objects. Martin Wong wrote:

[GENERAL] DISPLAYING BLOBS/images/text

1999-01-22 Thread Martin Wong
Dear all, I have a pgsql database table packed with images and another one packed with text files, all blobs. I have a script in perl which first extracts the images/text via the lo_export into a temp directory on my server and then it'll display the contents of the file on an HTML page passing H