Re: images in database

From: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>
To: Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: images in database
Date: 2003-04-03 12:30:00
Message-ID: 200304031800.00252.shridhar_daithankar@nospam.persistent.co.in
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On Thursday 03 April 2003 17:38, you wrote:
>
> In the end, we went with large objects because my tests showed them faster
> than bytea and there could be large sized objects, a B64 encoding would
> bloat the size (encode/decode time and size bloat were what slowed the
> bytea down I think) and the large objects let us extract the file in
> portions for streaming should we wish.

Just wondering, how does it exactly differ from storing an image in a file and
storing the filename in the database?

Shridhar

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