Le 25/03/2010 20:28, Laurent Rhelp a écrit :
Dear R-List,

I am working with binary data that I want to store in a PostgreSQL DataBase. I decided to use a TXT field. I read my binary file with readBin function, I succeed in my data storage in the database but I have some trouble to extract the data : the correct amount of bytes is stored in the TXT field but when I access to the data, the extracted dataframe is truncated !

 Here's the code :

library("RODBC");
##
## 1. Connection to the database
##
ch <- odbcConnect("PostgreSQL30");

##
## 2. Data Storage. I wrote 10000 bytes in the TXT field of the tabsignal table
##
## RQ : Thanks to the "paste" function, I convert bytes data in characters for the storage in the TXT field ## and I put one space between every character (cf. collapse argument) in order to use
##               the strsplit function for the extraction.
##
##      bytes is the result of the readBin function
##      bytes <- readBin(con, "raw", n=fileSize)
##
sqlQuery(ch, paste("INSERT INTO tabsignal VALUES ('TEST',1,'M1',1,'",paste(bytes[1:10000],collapse=" "),"')",sep=""))

##
## 3. Data Extraction
##
## The problem is here : sqlQuery command doesn't give the same amount of bytes
##
bytes.out <- sqlQuery(ch, paste("SELECT data FROM tabsignal WHERE id_evenement=1"),stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
bytes.out <- unlist(strsplit(bytes.out[1,1],split=" +"))
bytes.out <- as.raw(bytes.out)

length(bytes.out) ## bytes.out is shorter than bytes !!! although data is well-stored in the database.

## 4. End of the connection
close(ch)

Thank you very much for any idea.

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I am sorry for asking again my question, but I found some help after having read the "ODBC connectivity" document by Brian Ripley.
In the data types section, we can read (p. 9) :

"There is a sanity check which will allow
only strings of up to 65535 bytes when reading: this can be removed
by recompiling RODBC."

I think that it is the solution to my problem because when I read the database with a JAVA code using JDBC, it works fine. But I would like to use RODBC. If you think that I have to recompile RODBC, can somebody give me some advice, or a link for explanations because I never did it (I work with windows XP).

Thank you

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