Re: bytea and text

Not sure if decode works for COPY statements though, I thought copy is faster
than insert for bulk loading lots of data
than using a client call in whatever language postgres driver. But then its only
one field for binary data which is a lot bigger
than the other fields in the tuple, so I'm not sure what is the rate-limiting
factor here.

On Fri 27/11/09 14:18 , "Jean-Yves F. Barbier" 12ukwn(at)gmail(dot)com sent:
> Jasen Betts a écrit :
> > On 2009-11-26, Jean-Yves F. Barbier <12ukwn(at)gmail
> .com> wrote:>> Hi list,
> >>
> >> I'm asking myself what solution for storing
> pictures is the best:>>
> >> * using a BYTEA column type, and having no
> intrinsic compression gain >> because a picture it almost every time
> already compressed,>>
> >> * using a TEXT column type, and store a
> Base64(picture) in it; it should>> take benefits of intrinsic compression
> (?).>
> > use bytea and convert to/from base64 if you
> can't use the binary> interface and find the text interface
> inconvenient.
> that's what I do now
>
> > this will make the data over 1/3
> bigger.
> uuu, na: it comes as Base64 (to avoid a 0x89 unknown utf8 char error), but
> itis converted to BYTEA as I now use decode('inparm', 'base64') before
> insert,as back to Base64 when I extract it (with encode).
>
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