Re: Putting files into fields in a table

[Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Campbell, Lance wrote:

> I did not see much info in the 8.2 documentation on BLOB.  I did ready
> about "bytea" or binary data type.  It seems like it would work for
> storing files.  I guess I could stick with the OS for file storage but
> it is a pain.  It would be easier to use the DB.

In postgres they're simply called Large Objects (or LOBs) and there  
is a whole chapter devoted to them in Part IV of the manual.  Note  
that you only need to use this facility if you're going to be storing  
data over 1G in size (at which point your limit becomes 2G).  What  
kind of data are in these files?  What gain do you foresee in storing  
the files directly in the db (as opposed, say, to storing the paths  
to the files in the filesystem)?

Erik Jones

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