Re: Storing files in postgres db

tam wei wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am intending to store the files inside the postgres DB using the
> type text (all the files will be pre-encode into base64. The reason
> for not using the type bytea as I encountered some undesired
> format(the original file alignment can't be preserved) while
> extracting the content and display iit using php).

Hmm - not sure what you mean here. You should just get back whatever you
store.

> Will it be a bad idea for storing the files in DB? the file size is
> about 20 ~ 40 KB. 3K files need to be stored per day. Is there any
> impact on the DB performance?

This shouldn't be any different from storing a similar number of text
records.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd