Re: PDF files: to store in database or not

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PDF files: to store in database or not
Date: 2016-12-06 20:23:52
Message-ID: 200a522b-1c95-c1c6-d2d7-76894a926032@hogranch.com
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On 12/6/2016 12:10 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I did not realize that a BLOB is not the same as a bytea (page 217
> of the
> 9.6 PDF manual), and I cannot find BLOB as a postgres data type. Please
> point me in the right direction to learn how to store PDFs as BLOBs.

indeed BYTEA is postgres's type for storing arbitrary binary objects
that are called BLOB in certain other databases.

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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