Re: Storing files in postgres db

Hello Tam Wei,

tam wei wrote:
> I am intending to store the files inside the postgres DB using the
> type text (all the files will be pre-encode into base64. The reason
> for not using the type bytea as I encountered some undesired
> format(the original file alignment can't be preserved) while
> extracting the content and display iit using php).

You must be doing something wrong on PHP side. Make sure you use
pg_escape_bytea/pg_unescape_bytea when storing/loading. We use it and it
works with binary files, no problem. You are wasting space and slowing
things down with base64.

> Will it be a bad idea for storing the files in DB? the file size is
> about 20 ~ 40 KB. 3K files need to be stored per day. Is there any
> impact on the DB performance?

We use it to store files of 50MB without any difficulty. It all depends,
of course, on your hardware and load.

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