Re: Display Bytea field

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
wrote:
[snip]

> Alternatively, you could compare image checksums before and
> after moving them into postgres. The advantage is that you
> don't need to export or view any file, and you compare globally
> all your images. If the checksums are identical, the data are identical.
> On the MSSQL side, checksums can be computed with hashbytes()
> as suggested in this stackoverflow answer: [3]
> On the postgres side, use functions like md5() or sha256()
> directly on the bytea column.
>

This is what I did when migrating Oracle xLOB columns to bytea.  Had to use
upper(md5()).

I didn't suggest this earlier, since I don't know the details of MSSQL's
Image data type.

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