> > 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,
It should be fixed in revision #1888, thanks to Ian Haywood. But I am not 100% sure, so please check! 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
