# binary.py - working with binary data # # Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Federico Di Gregorio # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later # version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTIBILITY # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License # for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting) import sys import psycopg if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print "Opening connection using dns:", DSN conn = psycopg.connect(DSN) print "Encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding curs = conn.cursor() try: curs.execute("CREATE TABLE test_binary (id int4, name text, img bytea)") except: conn.rollback() curs.execute("DROP TABLE test_binary") curs.execute("CREATE TABLE test_binary (id int4, name text, img bytea)") conn.commit() # first we try two inserts, one with an explicit Binary call and the other # using a buffer on a file object. data1 = {'id':1, 'name':'somehackers.jpg', 'img':psycopg.Binary(open('somehackers.jpg').read())} data2 = {'id':2, 'name':'whereareyou.jpg', 'img':buffer(open('whereareyou.jpg').read())} curs.execute("""INSERT INTO test_binary VALUES (%(id)s, %(name)s, %(img)s)""", data1) curs.execute("""INSERT INTO test_binary VALUES (%(id)s, %(name)s, %(img)s)""", data2) # now we try to extract the images as simple text strings print "Extracting the images as strings..." curs.execute("SELECT * FROM test_binary") for row in curs.fetchall(): name, ext = row[1].split('.') new_name = name + '_S.' + ext print " writing %s to %s ..." % (name+'.'+ext, new_name), open(new_name, 'wb').write(row[2]) print "done" print " python type of image data is", type(row[2]) # extract exactly the same data but using a binary cursor print "Extracting the images using a binary cursor:" curs.execute("""DECLARE zot CURSOR FOR SELECT img, name FROM test_binary FOR READ ONLY""") curs.execute("""FETCH ALL FROM zot""") for row in curs.fetchall(): name, ext = row[1].split('.') new_name = name + '_B.' + ext print " writing %s to %s ..." % (name+'.'+ext, new_name), open(new_name, 'wb').write(row[0]) print "done" print " python type of image data is", type(row[0]) # this rollback is requires because we can't drop a table with a binary cusor # declared and still open conn.rollback() curs.execute("DROP TABLE test_binary") conn.commit() print "\nNow try to load the new images, to check it worked!"