How to download Postgres bytea column as file

Question

Currently, i have a number of files stored in postgres 8.4 as bytea. The file types are .doc, .odt, .pdf, .txt and etc.

May i know how to download all the file store

Answer 1

If you have a lot of data to download then you can get the lines first and then iterate through each one writing the bytea field to file.

$resource = pg_connect('host=localhost port=5432 dbname=website user=super password=************');

// grab all the user IDs
$userResponse = pg_query('select distinct(r.id) from resource r
                        join connection c on r.id = c.resource_id_from
                        join resource rfile on c.resource_id_to = rfile.id and         rfile.resource_type_id = 10
                        join file f on rfile.id = f.resource_id
                        join file_type ft on f.file_type_id = ft.id
                        where r.resource_type_id = 38');

// need to work through one by one to handle data
while($user = pg_fetch_array($userResponse)){
    $user_id = $user['id'];
    $query = 'select r.id, f.data, rfile.resource_type_id, ft.extension from resource r
                        join connection c on r.id = c.resource_id_from
                        join resource rfile on c.resource_id_to = rfile.id and rfile.resource_type_id = 10
                        join file f on rfile.id = f.resource_id
                        join file_type ft on f.file_type_id = ft.id
                        where r.resource_type_id = 38 and r.id = ' . $user_id;

    $fileResponse = pg_query($query);
    $fileData = pg_fetch_array($fileResponse);
    $data = pg_unescape_bytea($fileData['data']);
    $extension = $fileData['extension'];
    $fileId = $fileData['id'];
    $filename = $fileId . '.' . $extension;
    $fileHandle = fopen($filename, 'w');
    fwrite($fileHandle, $data);
    fclose($fileHandle);
}