Dear PostgreSQL community,
I have submitted a proposal for the project pgAdmin 4 bytea support. The project discusses storing media content (images, audio, video) as bytea. However, I have a quick question. What does bytea data look like typically when storing media content? What I had in mind is, media contents that uses MIME type, which are rendered as part of HTML. For example, the following is rendered as a red dot:
'data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUA
AAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO
9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==’
This string is decoded to bytea, and I stored it in a bytea column.
What are some other examples of using bytea to store media content, not necessarily using the MIME type? Is there a way to detect the type of these media (audio, image) stored in bytea?
Another question I had is, I read that there are performance-related issues for storing media in bytea. Are there practical ways to store bytea data that does not face performance-related issues? For example, storing large media content using multiple bytea parts, and reassembling them together once retrieved from the database?
Thank you,
Howard
