Re: Blobs in PostgreSQL

SQL syntax is fine.

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Richard Church wrote:

>
> Can it be created and manipulated using the SQL syntax, or does it require
> using the C language interface?
>
>
> >From: Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com>
> >To: Richard Church <rfchurch(at)hotmail(dot)com>
> >CC: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Blobs in PostgreSQL
> >Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:22:29 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >There are many things one may mean by blob.
> >a) there's old 'large object' interface,
> >http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?largeobjects.html
> >
> >b) the above is rarely necessary now, that there is no limit on amount of
> >data you can put into one tuple (due to TOASTing of tuples). To store
> >binary data, you should use bytea type and it has infinite (well, 4G)
> >limit of data.
> >
> >On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Richard Church wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > It seems that PostgreSQL supports Blobs but I couldn't find any mention
> >of
> > > it in the data types section of the manual.
> > >
> > > Is it a variant on the Text type, or is it entirely different?
> > >
> > > Where in the manual is it described?
> > >
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
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