No.
You said that BLOB = OID, I said (in another message) that BLOB = LO.
The truth must be somewhere. I think that OID is just some kind of number, that references each object in the database
installation.
Maybe David should read the doc...
Nicolas
-----Message d'origine-----
De: Nikolay Mijaylov [SMTP:nmmm@nmmm.nu]
Date: jeudi 14 octobre 1999 18:29
À: pgsql-general; Nicolas Huillard
Objet: Re: [GENERAL] insert BLOB
WHY????
because there ;s no KEY??? Ofcource there must be one.... :)
nmmm
----- Original Message -----
From: Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@ghs.fr>
To: 'Nikolay Mijaylov' <nmmm@nmmm.nu>; pgsql-general
<pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>; David Lanier <david@mids.net>
Sent: 14 Îêòîìâðè 1999 ã. 19:21
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] insert BLOB
Ooops...
It seem that someone is wrong...
-----Message d'origine-----
De: Nikolay Mijaylov [SMTP:nmmm@nmmm.nu]
Date: jeudi 14 octobre 1999 17:49
À: pgsql-general; David Lanier
Objet: Re: [GENERAL] insert BLOB
BLOb is OID
CREATE TABLE images (imagefield oid);
----- Original Message -----
From: David Lanier <david@mids.net>
To: PGSQL-General <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>
Sent: 14 Îêòîìâðè 1999 ã. 18:15
Subject: [GENERAL] insert BLOB
> I'm relatively new to Postgres.
>
> I'd like some help setting up a BLOB (binary large object) field to hold
> images, and more importantly, inserting data (images) into it. We're
using
> version 6.5.1.
>
> I tried this:
>
> CREATE TABLE images (imagefield blob);
>
> but I got an error, stating "Unable to locate type name 'blob' in catalog"
>
> Probably a better way to accomplish the same thing is to store the
graphics
> in the file system, and then simply have a column that contains the
location
> (ie http://www.domain.com/images/image1.gif), but I'd still like to know
how
> to place the image itself directly into the database.
>
> Thanks in advance for whatever help any of you can provide.
>
> David
>
>
> ************
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