Re: Storing images as BYTEA or large objects - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Storing images as BYTEA or large objects
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Msg-id 20080213134532.GB11314@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Storing images as BYTEA or large objects  (Koen Vermeer <koen@vermeer.tv>)
Responses Re: Storing images as BYTEA or large objects
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Koen Vermeer wrote:

> Instead of base64 encoding, I guess it would be easier to just escape
> the required bytes and store them in a bytea.

Actually, if you have access to the pqExecParams() call, you can pass
the bytes to a bytea column unescaped, which AFAIK saves some processing
on both the client and server.

To get the bytes back unescaped, I think you could use a binary cursor.

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