You would use the oid PostgreSQL data type and use the PHP
pg_lo* commands (http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.pgsql.php).
Here is a quick tutorial on how to import and export files:
http://www.newbienetwork.net/sections.php?op=printpage&artid=35
Brent
--- Mart�n Marqu�s <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar> wrote:
> I�m about to do some web aplications that will save data in a
> postgreSQL
> database, but I have one problem: I don�t understand the way
> postgreSQL saves
> byte files.
>
> I heard about bytea and Large Objects. Are they the same?
>
> And how do I insert, say, pdf files in my database?
>
> I looked for examples, but didn�t find much (in PHP,
> obviously).
>
> Saludos... :-)
>
> --
> Porqu� usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera,
> si pod�s usar PostgreSQL?
>
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