Re: Use PSQLFS for photo storage

Steve Atkins wrote:
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> On Jan 13, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Jason Long wrote:
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>> I would like to use PSQLFS(http://www.edlsystems.com/psqlfs/)
>> to store 100 GB of images in PostgreSQL.
>>
>> Once they are in there I can deal with them. My main purpose is to
>> use rsync to get the files into the database.
>>
>> Is there a better way to load 20,000 plus files reliably into Postgres?
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> If it's a filesystem then you'd get the files into the system
> by copying them there. You wouldn't want to touch the
> database manually (that'd be like touching the raw disk
> device on a real filesystem).
>
> Conversely, it's just a filesystem. There's not really any use
> to putting a filesystem on top of a database on top of a filesystem
> other than the (significant) hack value.
>
> In other words, you probably don't really want to do this.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
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>
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I just want an easy way to load the files into the DB and their original
path they were loaded from.

Is possible through SQL to load a file into a bytea column?