Re: SUBSTRING performance for large BYTEA

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Should we consider setting storage external by default for the type?
>
> No. That would be counterproductive for the more typical case of bytea
> values in the range of some-small-number-of-kilobytes. Or at least
> I think that's more typical than values that are so large you have to go
> out of your way to fetch them in chunks.

The typical case that I run into with Bytea is storing enough
information to where this would be useful. Specifically items such as
pdf and .doc.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
>

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