Re: BYTEA with large files leads to OutOfMemory - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Fuchs Clemens
Subject Re: BYTEA with large files leads to OutOfMemory
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Msg-id 9DDD01E6B277D511B22300A0C9EEE776025D4F09@LNZP106A
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In response to BYTEA with large files leads to OutOfMemory  (Fuchs Clemens <clemens.fuchs@siemens.com>)
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Thanks,

I switched to the Large Object Interface and now it works fine.

Clemens

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Von: Paul Thomas [mailto:paul@tmsl.demon.co.uk]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. März 2004 19:08
An: Fuchs Clemens
Cc: pgsql-jdbc @ postgresql . org
Betreff: Re: [JDBC] BYTEA with large files leads to OutOfMemory

On 17/03/2004 15:19 Fuchs Clemens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a project, which has to deal with files being uploaded to
> the
> DB. I created a table using the BYTEA datataype and uploading small files
> works great. But with larger files - I tested with 2.5 MB file - the
> memory
> consumption raises incredibly and leads to a OutOfMemory exception.
>
> I noticed several discussions about this topic, but found no solution.
>
> Can someone help me?

I think you've got 2 options:

1) increase the amount of memory for the JVM

2) use the Large Object interface instead of bytea.

HTH

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