From: | Mateu Batle <mbatle(at)iname(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | type bytea and large objects |
Date: | 2000-12-19 20:54:45 |
Message-ID: | 3A3FCB15.5060700@iname.com |
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Hi all,
I'm pretty new in PostgreSQL and I have some problems and
questions. I'll list them here, maybe someone can help me :)
1) I wanted to use a binary type. I've seen in some place a
type called bytea which I can use, but I cannot use it
as a primary key. Is that possible somehow or with another
type ?
The message I get when trying to use it as primary key is:
ERROR: DefineIndex: type bytea has no default operator class
2) If I use '\000' in a bytea string, what comes after the nul
value is really stored in the database ?
3) Because of these problems I have used text instead of bytea
and used base 64 encoding. The size of a row is limited to 8 Kbytes,
so I'm also using large objects (BLOB) in the case is larger.
But large objects are implemented using files in the
filesystem, which I think is a bit poor in performance.
With the current large object API is only possible to grow
the large objects, but no to shrink them.
Is there any way to do a truncate operation on a large object ?
Cheers,
Mateu
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