Storing images in PG?

From: "Dr(dot) Evil" <drevil(at)sidereal(dot)kz>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Storing images in PG?
Date: 2001-08-16 06:02:00
Message-ID: 20010816060200.2212.qmail@sidereal.kz
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I am creating a DB which is going to have to store a lot of small
images. Nothing will be over 10k. This is with PG7.2. I have a few
questions: Should I use blob or bytea (neither seem to be well
documented), and how do I access that binary information? For
instance, if I have this table in PG:

CREATE TABLE imagetable (
....
image BYTEA,
....
);

and then I do this in PHP:

$result = pg_exec($db, "SELECT image FROM imagetable WHERE ...");
$ary = pg_fetch_array($result, 0);
$imagedata = $ary["image"];

Will all of the above work?

If I can handle images in the DB, this is going to be the coolest
wireless app.

Thanks

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