Thread: lo_import problems

Hi,
   I'm trying to write an script in Perl5 that do an lo_import, but
using the one that the perl interface offers returns an oid equal to
zero:

...
$conn = Pg::connectdb("dbname=test");
$lobjId = $conn->lo_import($file);
...
   Where $file is the file to be imported into the database. If I try to do as in Chapter 45:

INSERT INTO image (name, raster) VALUES ('beautiful image', lo_import('/etc/motd'));
   I get the following error:

ERROR:  You must have Postgres superuser privilege to use server-side lo_import().       Anyone can use the client-side
lo_import()provided by libpq.
 
   And, indeed, this only works when logged on as superuser on the database, but not with the others.

Thanks in advance.

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Igor Gavriloff <igor@nupes.cefetpr.br> writes:
>     I'm trying to write an script in Perl5 that do an lo_import, but
> using the one that the perl interface offers returns an oid equal to
> zero:

> ...
> $conn = Pg::connectdb("dbname=test");
> $lobjId = $conn->lo_import($file);

lo_import, like all LO operations, has to be executed inside a
transaction block (BEGIN/END SQL commands).  This is, um, poorly
documented in the Perl interface's docs, though you can read about
it in the docs for the underlying C library libpq.
        regards, tom lane

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Igor Gavriloff wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>     I'm trying to write an script in Perl5 that do an lo_import, but
> using the one that the perl interface offers returns an oid equal to
> zero:
> 
> ...
> $conn = Pg::connectdb("dbname=test");
BEGIN;

> $lobjId = $conn->lo_import($file);
COMMIT;
                Karel