Re: uploading files - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: uploading files
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Msg-id 87llqdqy37.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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In response to Point-in-time data recovery - v.7.4  (Rafael Martinez Guerrero <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>)
Responses Re: uploading files  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
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"Rick Gigger" <rick@alpinenetworking.com> writes:

> What is the best method for storing files in postgres?  Is it better to use
> the large object functions or to just encode the data and store it in a
> regular text or data field?

Depends on whether you need "random access" to the contents.  You can
lo_seek() inside a large object and retrieve parts of the data with
lo_read(), while 'text' and 'bytea' currently require fetching the
whole field.

-Doug

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