Re: using bytea data type - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: using bytea data type
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Msg-id 1291477863.3568.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to using bytea data type  ("Manasi Save" <manasi.save@artificialmachines.com>)
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On tor, 2010-12-02 at 06:42 -0500, Manasi Save wrote:
> Can anyone provide me any input using the bytea data type for storing binary data provides how much benefit on
performanceas I have millions rows in a table using bytea data type also it is index. So how indexing really works on
byteacolumns? 

Benefit relative to what alternative?

> As I have read in some forum mentioning that one should not use bytea data type.

That sounds like nonsense to me.



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