Re: Does Postgres support BLOB datatypes?

From: "Command Prompt, Inc(dot)" <pgsql-general(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Peter E(dot) Chen" <pchen3(at)jhmi(dot)edu>
Cc: "Postgres (General)" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Does Postgres support BLOB datatypes?
Date: 2002-01-08 20:46:07
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0201081243110.31543-100000@commandprompt.com
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Hello,

Yes PostgreSQL supports BLOBS. You are looking for \loimport within psql
client.

J

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Peter E. Chen wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> I just migrated a MySQL database to Postgres. I used the mysql2pgsql
> application to convert my MySQL data into Postgres-friendly data. The BLOB
> data I had in the MySQL database converted into the text datatype for
> postgres. I'd like to know if Postgres supports BLOBs and if not, what
> datatype should I use in place of BLOBs?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Peter
>
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