Re: binary data types and streaming

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: David Durham <ddurham(at)vailsys(dot)com>
Subject: Re: binary data types and streaming
Date: 2006-02-21 21:31:15
Message-ID: 200602212231.16715.peter_e@gmx.net
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David Durham wrote:
> What are the differences between using the bytea type and the
> BLOB type?

The bytea type exists, the blob type does not.

> Is there any type of streaming support built into postgres'
> binary datatype handling? For instance, can I specify a beginning
> offset for the binary data that I want>

substring and other such functions are available.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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