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List:       postgis-users
Subject:    Re: [postgis-users] Looking inside a blob
From:       Paul Ramsey <pramsey () opengeo ! org>
Date:       2012-04-25 16:44:29
Message-ID: CACowWR2o2d+4SCHs-Gs2a9GPM3_JHRmkbJy_2r7-25-DKPE0AA () mail ! gmail ! com
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You're necessarily going to have to unzip to view things. However,
with the blob API you should be able to get access to a file handle,
and with the right code could do things like view a manifest or
extract individual files without pulling the whole blob over the wire
to a client.

P.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:40 AM, White, Richard
<Richard.White@infoterra-global.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Not entirely postgis related.
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> Is it possible to view the contents of zipped directories stored as blobs in
> a postgresql database without having to extract and unzip the data?
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> Thanks.
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