Re: blob storage

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 16:42, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:41:28PM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 15:30, Travis Harris wrote:
> > > I would like to use P* to store files. These files will probably
> > > range from 500K to 2 MB in size and there will be thousands upon
> > > thousands of them. I was wondering how P* stores blobs, if it is all
> > > in one file, or if each blob is sored in it's own file. The reason
> > > being, I know that windows has a 2 GB limit on files, and if they are
> > > not stored as their own files, I'll hit my limit FAST... and it'll do
> > > me no good... If this is going to be a problem, does anyone have any
> > > suggestions?
> >
> > If you store them as large objects, they will each get their own file.
>
> Huh, no, they won't. They will be stored in the pg_largeobject table.
> It's been quite a while since they are not stored in separate files;
> though they keep the POSIX-filesystem-like semantics.

Oh, I guess it's been a few years since I last played with large
objects. Sorry for the misinformation.

I guess you can tell I prefer bytea nowadays... :)