Re: Store base64 in database. Use bytea or text?

Hi,

Another question about this subject.

It is possible to cache this images from the database? In the future I
will need to cache the pictures.

If you have any knowledge about this, please give me a clue.

Best Regards,

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> wrote:
> In response to Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>
>> 2011/1/26 Andre Lopes <lopes80andre(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>
>> > Thanks for the reply.
>> >
>> > I will mainly store files with 100kb to 250kb not bigger than this.
>> >
>> > PQescapeByteaConn is not available in a default installation of
>> > PostgreSQL? My hosting account hava a standard installation of
>> > PostgreSQL. There are other options for escaping binary files?
>> >
>> > Best Regards,
>> >
>> PQescapeByteConn is a function of libpq - native C client library.
>> In you case (PHP) you should use its functions to encode binary
>> data before including it into a query (e.g., in base64) and use
>> built-in decode() function of Postgres:
>> -- Pseudo-code
>> INSERT INTO img (dat) VALUES (decode(BASE64_INPUT_FROM_PHP, 'base64'));
>>
>> where dat column of table img of type bytea.
>
> More specifically:
>
> $query = "INSERT INTO image_data (bytea_field) VALUES ('" .
>         pg_escape_bytea($binary_data) . "')";
> pg_query($query);
>
> And to get it back out:
> $query = "SELECT bytea_field FROM image_data";
> $rs = pg_query($query);
> $row = pg_fetch_assoc($rs);
> $binary_data = pg_unescape_bytea($row['bytea_field']);
>
> (note that I may have omitted some steps for clarity)
>
> DO NOT use parametrized queries with PHP and bytea (I hate to say that,
> because parametrized fields are usually a very good idea).  PHP has a
> bug that mangles bytea data when pushed through parametrized fields.
>
> PHP bug #35800
>
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>