Re: [GENERAL] When much of a DB is large objects - PG 8.4

2009-10-20 Thread David Wall
the bytea limit is 1gb (as are all datums in postgres). pg_largeobject can go up to 2gb, but in either case you'd likely run into severe performance/scalability issues long before objects began approaching those size because of memory usage and other issues. With 100kb objects though, you

[GENERAL] When much of a DB is large objects - PG 8.4

2009-10-19 Thread David Wall
We have a system in which a large amount of the data is stored as large objects now in PG 8.4. The relational aspects of these objects are stored using traditional tables, but we store a lot of binary data (files, images) and XML objects that are compressed and then encrypted. The ACID

Re: [GENERAL] When much of a DB is large objects - PG 8.4

2009-10-19 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:11 PM, David Wall d.w...@computer.org wrote: We have a system in which a large amount of the data is stored as large objects now in PG 8.4.  The relational aspects of these objects are stored using traditional tables, but we store a lot of binary data (files, images)