Large TEXT fields - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From David F. Skoll
Subject Large TEXT fields
Date
Msg-id 20020816104435.09e41b35.dfs@roaringpenguin.com
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Hi,

I'm considering building a database with a table which stores entire
e-mail messages, up to around 128kB.

- How does PostgreSQL cope with tables with huge amounts of data in a
TEXT column?  Let's say 50,000 rows of e-mail messages with an average
e-mail size of 20kB, with maybe 5% of the messages over 100kB.

- Is it better to use the large-object interface?  I'd rather avoid
this as it's a bit clunky.

- Is it better to store the messages as files and have the database
hold filenames?  I'd *really* rather not do this...

Regards,

David.

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