Re: Use a blob or not?

From: Colin Streicher <colin(at)obviouslymalicious(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Use a blob or not?
Date: 2009-12-08 01:28:13
Message-ID: 200912072028.13938.colin@obviouslymalicious.com
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On December 7, 2009 12:07:49 pm Daniel wrote:
> I want ot store chunks of data (only about five Kb each) on a database
> and have users download (across a network) these chunks to their local
> disk drive. Is a blob a good way to store these chunks?
>
> Thanks.
>
Put me on the list of recommending bytea,
It works well for me, I use it for my virus database, and have noticed no
perceptable lag from ~100k samples averaging probably 100kb.

Colin
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