Dear PostgreSQL-experts, may I request your advice for implementing the following application: I have binary data vectors of experimental data, about 10 million of them in total, each between 10 and 40 Kbytes long. I want to store the experimental conditions pertaining to each of the data vectors in a PostgreSQL database and the data themselves in a file. I want to do this file-handling (creation, reading & writing) in a compiled (C) language function, so that I can do everything over one database connection, instead of having a separate program on a separate port take care of the data files. Right now, I am converting the data vectors to a string representation and back. But I wonder whether there is a more efficient way of handing over the data to my function? Thank you very much for your help. Rolf Rolf Mueller, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Biosonar Lab, Tuebingen University, Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tuebingen Phone +49 7071 29-74838 Fax. +49 7071 292618
