Large TEXT fields

From: "David F(dot) Skoll" <dfs(at)roaringpenguin(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Large TEXT fields
Date: 2002-08-16 14:44:35
Message-ID: 20020816104435.09e41b35.dfs@roaringpenguin.com
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Hi,

I'm considering building a database with a table which stores entire
e-mail messages, up to around 128kB.

- How does PostgreSQL cope with tables with huge amounts of data in a
TEXT column? Let's say 50,000 rows of e-mail messages with an average
e-mail size of 20kB, with maybe 5% of the messages over 100kB.

- Is it better to use the large-object interface? I'd rather avoid
this as it's a bit clunky.

- Is it better to store the messages as files and have the database
hold filenames? I'd *really* rather not do this...

Regards,

David.

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