Re: Storing text data in databases.

Hi Mallah,

Postgres 7.1 and above store large text fields (as type 'text') efficiently.
Just use Postgres and don't worry about it! In fact, postgres itself stores
the large data in a separate table for just the performance reasons you
give! However this is totally transparent to you, the user.

You can use the 'bytea' type for binary data of any size.

Chris

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> Hi folks,
> Is it a good idea to store large amount of text ( ~ 5-10 K ) in
> database
> columns from performance point of view? or store the text in sperate
> files and store the id of the file in the databases.
>
> Mallah.
>
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