Re: Querying a BYTEA datatype - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Shoaib Mir
Subject Re: Querying a BYTEA datatype
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Msg-id bf54be870604142254n3a5c42cehc8204b67f3cc67d5@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Querying a BYTEA datatype  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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Thanks Merlin

On 4/15/06, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/14/06, Shoaib Mir <shoaibmir@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Need an urgent help on the following:
>
> How can  in PostgreSQL we handle quries on the content of bytea data type?
>
> Like if we want to do some search on the basis of bytea content, is there a
> way?
>

you have two options that i know of:
1. convert to text and do text processing
2. make a c function that processes binary and link it to the server.
this will probably give you the best performance

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