Can it be created and manipulated using the SQL syntax, or does it require
using the C language interface?
>From: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
>To: Richard Church <rfchurch@hotmail.com>
>CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Blobs in PostgreSQL
>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:22:29 -0400 (EDT)
>
>There are many things one may mean by blob.
>a) there's old 'large object' interface,
>http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?largeobjects.html
>
>b) the above is rarely necessary now, that there is no limit on amount of
>data you can put into one tuple (due to TOASTing of tuples). To store
>binary data, you should use bytea type and it has infinite (well, 4G)
>limit of data.
>
>On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Richard Church wrote:
>
> >
> > It seems that PostgreSQL supports Blobs but I couldn't find any mention
>of
> > it in the data types section of the manual.
> >
> > Is it a variant on the Text type, or is it entirely different?
> >
> > Where in the manual is it described?
> >
> >
> > Richard
> >
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