[sqlite] how to pass function result to a blob ?

2009-09-10 Thread yogibabu
table has two three columns: i want to be able to put a result of internal sqlite3 function to a blob UPDATE table1 SET stringblob = hex(string) etc... but as a result of this query the stringblob column is populated by text's, not by blobs something like this should work but it doesn't:

Re: [sqlite] how to pass function result to a blob ?

2009-09-10 Thread Pavel Ivanov
I don't really understand what you're trying to achieve, but what about UPDATE table1 SET stringblob = cast(hex(string) as blob) Pavel On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:34 PM, yogibabu madra...@interia.pl wrote: table has two three columns: i want to be able to put a result of internal

Re: [sqlite] how to pass function result to a blob ?

2009-09-10 Thread Pavel Ivanov
So why can't you do like this: sql = UPDATE table1 SET stringblob = X' . bin2hex(...) . ' ...; Pavel On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:01 PM, yogibabu madra...@interia.pl wrote: Pavel Ivanov-2 wrote: I don't really understand what you're trying to achieve, but what about UPDATE table1 SET

Re: [sqlite] how to pass function result to a blob ?

2009-09-10 Thread yogibabu
Pavel Ivanov-2 wrote: So why can't you do like this: sql = UPDATE table1 SET stringblob = X' . bin2hex(...) . ' ...; because I want this function to be called within database without looping it out through every row in php -- View this message in context:

Re: [sqlite] how to pass function result to a blob ?

2009-09-10 Thread Pavel Ivanov
Sorry, but I still don't quite understand what do you have and what are you trying to achieve. Now I understand it like you have some binary data in php and want to insert it into blob field. Then you should be able to do this: UPDATE table1 SET stringblob = ? ... And bind you binary data as

Re: [sqlite] how to pass function result to a blob ?

2009-09-10 Thread yogibabu
i have my data already in database, i want to perform some algorithms on it and put it within the database onto the same row, because this is binary data i must use blob functions for processing the data are registered by $pdo-sqliteCreateFunction interestingly, when I operate on strings by

Re: [sqlite] how to pass function result to a blob ?

2009-09-10 Thread Simon Slavin
On 10 Sep 2009, at 8:34pm, yogibabu wrote: UPDATE table1 SET stringblob = X'hex(string)' etc... it returns: unrecognized token x'hex', but when I put a variable by hand it works ok Check to see that one of the levels of API you're using is not trying to interpret the quotes