Variable-length binary string type in PostgreSQL
Questions tagged [bytea]
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PostgreSQL bytea to Base64 like SQL Server
In SQL Server I convert binary to Base64 like this
SELECT HASHBYTES('MD5', 'Test') FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
and have result "DLxmEfVUC9CAmjiNyVphWw==".
In PostgreSQL i have
SELECT encode(md5('Test')::bytea, 'base64')
and result is…

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PostgreSQL: manipulate binary data - change last byte with SQL command
In a PostgreSQL table I have a column file_bytes which has the data type bytea.
I am looking for a simple SQL statement to manipulate only the last byte of the content of this column.

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LocalDateTime turning into bytea with a StoredProcedureQuery
Using Java 8, Spring 4.3.9 and a Postgre database.
I have a stored function defined as followed :
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.getinformations (
IN stateId integer,
IN dateStart timestamp,
IN dateEnd timestamp
)
RETURNS SETOF…

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Insert image into postgres database using queries
I am wondering how to insert an image into a postgres database in column of type bytea, do I have to insert from the path of the PGDATA?
Thanks

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Storing result convert.FromBase64String into postgres bytea
I have a mini system where frontend will pass the file in base64 format to the backend. I used convert.frombase64string in order for me to convert the base64 format into byte array and used file stream to save the file into the server.
The codes are…

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How to decode PostgreSQL bytea column hex to int16/uint16 in r?
I have some image data stored in a PostgreSQL database table column as bytea. I also have metadata about the data for use in interpreting it, relevant ones being image dimensions and class. Classes include int16, uint16. I cannot find any…

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Different result formats when insert postgreSQL function result between JDBC & console
In postgreSQL, I use pgcrypto module to call pgp_sym_encrypt function (return bytea type) and save the result into a text column:
For example I have test table with column columnA(text):
CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;
insert into test (columnA) values…

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FireDAC: How to avoid "Cannot describe type" error? (on a postgres geometry column)
I have read in the documentation
(http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Defining_Connection_(FireDAC))
that one must set the connection parameter "UnknownFormat" to "BYTEA", to avoid this error.
However, I have set that parameter and…

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Can I update a slice of bytea field parallelly in postgresql 9.6.5?
I have a table which is
event_id BIGINT NOT NULL,
data BYTEA
and a column in this table is
event_id | data
----------+--------------------
2 | \x0000000000000000
Now, I want to update a slice of data like
UPDATE "bin_data" SET…

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How to store folder in PostgreSQL
We have a requirement where we need to store mail templates in databases. these mail templates use some images. So we are thinking about storing a folder with images and HTML file in the database. The folder will have 200-300 kb of storage and we…

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Convert SQL blob/bytea in dump to string in Python
I have a pg_dump of a table that contains a column of type bytea. It is a long string like: \\x4e696365206d7573696361...
Normally in SQL I would use a simple:
SELECT user_id,
encode(text_column::bytea, 'escape')
FROM posts
LIMIT 10
And that…

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ERROR: column "publish_date" is of type date but expression is of type bytea
I'm trying to insert objects of type Book into a database, and one of the columns is specified as date, but according to this exception:
Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: column "publish_date" is of type date but expression is of…

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How to generate a random 6-digit integer that's cryptographically strong?
We want a function that given an argument that is three bytes of type bytea (generated by the function gen_random_bytes of the pgcrypto extension), the function returns a random 6-digit integer (between 0 & 999999 inclusive). The 6-digit integer…

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Insert And Retrieve Image from PostgreSQL bytea using PDO
Im working usign PDO and PHP.
This is my table in Postgre
CREATE TABLE public.img
(
id integer NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('img_id_seq'::regclass),
nombre bytea
)
When i store the file data i use this method

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JAVA JDBC Driver PostgreSQL: Parse numbers encoded as BYTEA object
I have relation where for each record there is BYTEA column (UTF-8) encoding 3 numbers in the following order:
bytes 0-1: number 1
bytes 2-3: number 2
bytes 4-6: number 3
How can I parse the binary data to readable numbers?
Currently I have this and…

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