Hi Monks, What Poj suggested did not work, I tried everything including adding absolute path for the images dir, now I want to try a different approach i.e. to get the images first to a folder and pass that to the insert_image() method, for which I have to use COPY command using DBI which again giving errors this command works fine when executed on the command line but DBD::Pg is giving syntax error, here is my script :

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Pg:dbname=northwind;host=localhost", "post
+gres", "postgres", {'RaiseError' => 1});

my $empid = $dbh->prepare('SELECT DISTINCT("EmployeeID") as empid FROM
+ "Employees" ORDER BY 1');
$dbh->do("SET search_path to northwind") or die;
$empid->execute();

while(my $ref = $empid->fetchrow_hashref()) {

$dbh->do("SET search_path to nortwind") or die;

$dbh->do("COPY 
              (SELECT encode(\"Photo\", 'hex') 
          FROM 
              \"Employees\" 
          WHERE 
              \"EmployeeID\"='$ref->{'empid'}') 
          TO 
              '/home/postgres/scripts/images/'$ref->{'empid'}.hex'") o
+r die;

system("/usr/bin/xxd -p -r /home/postgres/scripts/images/'$ref->{'empi
+d'}.jpg'");

}

$dbh->disconnect();
exit;
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Here is the error :

DBD::Pg::db do failed: ERROR:  syntax error at or near "1."
LINE 8:               '/home/postgres/scripts/images/'1.hex'
                                                      ^ at photo.pl li
+ne 17.
DBD::Pg::db do failed: ERROR:  syntax error at or near "1."
LINE 8:               '/home/postgres/scripts/images/'1.hex'
                                                      ^ at photo.pl li
+ne 17.
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Please do help. Thanks Terry