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Subject: Data type for storing images?
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I would like to store some images in my Postgres database.  These will
all be thumbnails, limited to 4k or 5k.  I know that PG has an 8k row
limit, but this should be fine, because there's not much else in the
row.  Which data type could I use to store them, and is there a
performance cost for having rows that are this big?  The system will
be using PG7.1, btw.

Thanks