# lobject.py - lobject example # # Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Federico Di Gregorio # # psycopg2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published # by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # psycopg2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public # License for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting) import sys import psycopg2 if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print("Opening connection using dsn:", DSN) conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) print("Encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding) # this will create a large object with a new random oid, we'll # use it to make some basic tests about read/write and seek. lobj = conn.lobject() loid = lobj.oid print("Created a new large object with oid", loid) print("Manually importing some binary data into the object:") data = open("somehackers.jpg").read() len = lobj.write(data) print(" imported", len, "bytes of data") conn.commit() print("Trying to (re)open large object with oid", loid) lobj = conn.lobject(loid) print("Manually exporting the data from the lobject:") data1 = lobj.read() len = lobj.tell() lobj.seek(0, 0) data2 = lobj.read() if data1 != data2: print("ERROR: read after seek returned different data") open("somehackers_lobject1.jpg", 'wb').write(data1) print(" written", len, "bytes of data to somehackers_lobject1.jpg") lobj.unlink() print("Large object with oid", loid, "removed") conn.commit() # now we try to use the import and export functions to do the same lobj = conn.lobject(0, 'n', 0, "somehackers.jpg") loid = lobj.oid print("Imported a new large object with oid", loid) conn.commit() print("Trying to (re)open large object with oid", loid) lobj = conn.lobject(loid, 'n') print("Using export() to export the data from the large object:") lobj.export("somehackers_lobject2.jpg") print(" exported large object to somehackers_lobject2.jpg") lobj.unlink() print("Large object with oid", loid, "removed") conn.commit() # this will create a very large object with a new random oid. lobj = conn.lobject() loid = lobj.oid print("Created a new large object with oid", loid) print("Manually importing a lot of data into the object:") data = "data" * 1000000 len = lobj.write(data) print(" imported", len, "bytes of data") conn.rollback() print("\nNow try to load the new images, to check it worked!")