| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Daniel <danwgrace(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Use a blob or not? |
| Date: | 2009-12-07 17:39:14 |
| Message-ID: | 1260207554.6287.15.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 09:07 -0800, Daniel wrote:
> I want ot store chunks of data (only about five Kb each) on a database
> and have users download (across a network) these chunks to their local
> disk drive. Is a blob a good way to store these chunks?
Well we don't have "blob". We have bytea and lo (which is bytea with a
different delivery and storage mechanism).
5k chunks is pretty small, bytea is probably fine.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Thanks.
>
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