You just haven't met the right application yet.
in the manual there is a discussion on other methods that were previosly
used.
The PG system is good, with minor limitations in the lo* API.
I'm busy writing a faxserver application where all the fax page data is
stored as a blob.
Its just so easy to use...
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>I have never understood why people would store binary data in an SQL
>database. Am I missing something?
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