Re: graphics in postgres? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gilles DAROLD
Subject Re: graphics in postgres?
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Msg-id 3993A74B.FE7275A9@darold.net
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In response to graphics in postgres?  ("Ramses van Pinxteren" <ram6@euronet.nl>)
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Ramses van Pinxteren wrote:

> Hi, I am a very novice user of postres, and I immediately encountered
> a problem... the datatype BLOB is nowhere to be found in postgres. can
> I still ad binary info as a gif file to a database, and if so, what
> datatype should I use? my thanks,Ramses v. Pinxteren

You can use blob, but this is not a good idea if you want to allow
viewing these gif by Internet.
The better way is to store the path information into a text field. This
will give you better performance

Regards,

Gilles DAROLD


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