Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Erik Jones
Subject Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished
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Msg-id 59F062BF-949D-4C7B-BFDD-4FA5F1D31ECC@myemma.com
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In response to PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished  (Tony Caduto <tony_caduto@amsoftwaredesign.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Aug 23, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Tony Caduto wrote:

> Check it out here:
>
> http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com/pg_vs_fb
>
>
> When comparing in the grid the only major advantage FB has is
> probably BLOB support.
> PG only suppports 1 gb while FB supports 32gb.  Bytea is pretty
> slow as well when compared to the FB BLOB support.

Actually, Postgres's large object facility allows storage of binary
data up to 2GB in size.  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/
interactive/largeobjects.html

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