Re: using bytea data type

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Manasi Save <manasi(dot)save(at)artificialmachines(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: using bytea data type
Date: 2010-12-04 15:51:03
Message-ID: 1291477863.3568.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tor, 2010-12-02 at 06:42 -0500, Manasi Save wrote:
> Can anyone provide me any input using the bytea data type for storing binary data provides how much benefit on performance as I have millions rows in a table using bytea data type also it is index. So how indexing really works on bytea columns?

Benefit relative to what alternative?

> As I have read in some forum mentioning that one should not use bytea data type.

That sounds like nonsense to me.

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