Re: images in database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Shridhar Daithankar
Subject Re: images in database
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Msg-id 200304031800.00252.shridhar_daithankar@nospam.persistent.co.in
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In response to Re: images in database  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
Responses Re: images in database  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
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On Thursday 03 April 2003 17:38, you wrote:
>
> In the end, we went with large objects because my tests showed them faster
> than bytea and there could be large sized objects, a B64 encoding would
> bloat the size (encode/decode time and size bloat were what slowed the
> bytea down I think) and the large objects let us extract the file in
> portions for streaming should we wish.


Just wondering, how does it exactly differ from storing an image in a file and
storing the filename in the database?

 Shridhar


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