| From: | dustin sallings <dustin(at)spy(dot)net> |
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| To: | Chris Bitmead <chris(dot)bitmead(at)bigfoot(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL for storing a database of documents |
| Date: | 1999-05-05 06:08:12 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.NEB.4.10.9905042304500.564-100000@mobile |
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Chris Bitmead wrote:
// > # 1. Tuples are limited to 8KB. I assume even the "text" type is limited
// > # that way. But my documents may be longer than that.
// >
// > This isn't a problem, I store all of my photographs
// > in postgres.
//
// How?
I played with BLOBs, but I didn't like how they were stored, or
that they didn't back up, so I went with Base64 encoded data which I split
up to store. It's pretty damned quick, and I get a lot more control.
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