> I've posted about this before in regards to the PictureDatabase example, as > in postgres though you can save the picture, it dosn't retreive. I had > asked someone to test it, though no-one appears to have had the time. > > This driver is pretty critical to my medical records project, as I used to > be able to save images of skin lesions/Xrays, diagrams, line drawings, back > to my database and now can save but the retreived image is chopped losing a > number of bytes from the end and won't display. > > I want to be able to present my program at a medical computing conference > in July as a prototype version reasonably fully complete by then, so I need > it to work. All this work of mine by the way will be open-sourced if I can > get it to a state of functional completeness. > > So I asked my mate Ian Haywood, who is quite an accomplished programmer and > far far brighter and more computer literate than I by sending him this > message > > > If you updated the latest gambas - you don't need my program to test > > this - just change a couple of lines of code in the picturedatabase > > sample program to use postgres and you will see the error. Maybe, it is > > only on my machine. > > and this was his reply: > > ================================================= > I can reproduce this. It is only postgres, only gambas, and only with the > BYTEA type, TEXT doesn't do this (but you can't put a png in text, at least > not easily). > > So, it's definitely a bug in the postgres drivers for gambas. > Has this been reported to the gambas list? > > There is a workaround: convert the png to text and store, then convert back > on reading. this works b/c our images are small, but big images will waste > space and cause slowness. this solution is fairly easy to whip up, I can do > this if the underlying bug can't be fixed and we want this functionality > for 10240cc[conference]. > > Ian > ================================================= > > So I wondered if somone could test the postgres driver again, just to make > sure it is not a library on my machine, although I know Ian runs a debian > flavour so probably not. > > Regards > > Richard
I promise, I will look at that bug as soon as I finish my removal! Regards, -- Benoît ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
