"Rod K" <rod@23net.net> writes:
> I also don't understand what information you have that leads you to make the
> claim that space is wasted. I guess it is due to your assumption that a
> BLOB is used. A bytea type takes 4 extra bytes than the actual size of the
> data.
Even when using BLOBs, there's not very significant overhead ---
certainly much less than the overhead of putting a small image into a
file, which is probably going to occupy at least 1K on disk. I would
guess that the separate-files approach would be the most bulky of the
three choices.
regards, tom lane
