On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 08:48:21PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
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bytea is probably your best bet. The 8k limit is toast in 7.1, btw.
Is that whay you named it TOAST, in order to be able to say that? :)))
Regards, Frank
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I would like to store some images in my Postgres database. These will
all be thumbnails, limited to 4k or 5k. I know that PG has an 8k row
limit, but this should be fine, because there's not much else in the
row. Which data type could I use to store them, and is there a
performance cost for
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I would like to store some images in my Postgres database. These will
all be thumbnails, limited to 4k or 5k. I know that PG has an 8k row
limit, but this should be fine, because there's not much else in the
row. Which data type could I use to store them, and is
bytea is probably your best bet. The 8k limit is toast in 7.1, btw.
If you're using JDBC, you may not be able to get bytea types to work. I was
able to get the SQL type OID to work with JDBC's get/setBytes() methods.
You may also want to use 7.1 since I believe it's large object support is
