Re: Image storage questions

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Ed L(dot)" <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Image storage questions
Date: 2005-05-18 20:40:05
Message-ID: 428BA825.2050705@commandprompt.com
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Ed L. wrote:
> On Wednesday May 18 2005 2:10 pm, Ed L. wrote:
>
>>What are the tradeoffs of storing images as bytea vs blobs?
>
>
> Actually, I see you can't store/retrieve blobs remotely, which is
> a non-starter.

Sure you can. We do it all the time. What language are you using that
doesn't let you do it?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

So the remaining choices seem to be bytea vs.
> storing only metadata and keeping the images elsewhere (maybe an
> apache image server). Other thoughts?
>
> Ed
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