Re: Storing Binary Large Objects

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Mark Wong wrote:

> I believe the main difference is that one is a datatype the other is the
> name of the table's column of row id's.

Oh. OK.

> So another difference between using oid and bytea is that to insert a
> large object into the database using the oid datatype requires the use of
> special large object functions. You can't simply insert escaped data,
> while you can with a bytea datatype.

So, to store .pdf files I'd use the oid data type, yes? I'll read up on
that.

Thanks,

Rich

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