Re: [GENERAL] large object minimum storage

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Kenneth Been wrote:

# I've pretty much decided to use arrays instead of blobs, and put the
# "overflow" in a separate table for the few objects that exceed the
# limit, but if anyone has any better ideas, I'd love to hear them.

The most common way I've seen (and done) is to put the stuff in a
table with an id, a sequence number, and the data you want to store. I
store image data by base64 encoding it and storing the pieces in little
individual rows of about 76 characters each. It works out pretty well
that way.

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