Re: Use bytearray for blobs or not?

From: Thomas Güttler <guettliml(at)thomas-guettler(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Use bytearray for blobs or not?
Date: 2019-01-04 13:15:56
Message-ID: 01e65f2d-a6cc-871a-e3b8-7f6a70118e59@thomas-guettler.de
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Am 04.01.19 um 12:48 schrieb Achilleas Mantzios:
> On 4/1/19 1:41 μ.μ., Thomas Güttler wrote:
>> Some months ago I wrote a little application with Python+Django which stores
>> blob data in bytearrays.
>>
>> It works.
>>
>> In the future there will be a lot more traffic, and I am unsure
>> if this is really a good solution. I know this is more FUD than
>> concrete PG issue.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Performance (at least for JDBC) is known to be better with blobs.
> However, with bytea life is just easier for many reasons (backups, logical replication, other types of replication, sys
> management, etc).

I could switch to a s3 like storage server, too. Up to now, this would only be
some lines of code. I could store the s3 IDs in postgres.

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