Thanks.
I would like to load an entire text file into a field of a table.Is
there an easy way to do this or do I have to write a script?
TIA
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:39:13AM -0500, Mag Gam wrote:
>> I would like to index several documents. They are all text files, I
>> was wondering what is the best way to do this. I was thinking to have
>> a column which will have:
>>
>> *docid (serial)
>> date (timestamp)
>> document (varchar)
>>
>> Eventually, I would like to access these documents via a webbrowser
>> and I would like to search these documents. Each document is about 10
>> to 20kb in size.
>>
>> My question is, what datatype would be ideal for "document" field?
>> Also, any thoughts and recommendations ?
>
> Make it a TEXT type. You can use PostgreSQL's full text search options for
> searching across the set of all documents for given words or phrases.
>
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