Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3886E2E2F39 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:16:30 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08566-04 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:16:13 -0400 (AST) Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB99B2E2ECA for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:16:21 -0400 (AST) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (200-126-76-117.bk5-dsl.surnet.cl [200.126.76.117]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBDKGHbn030291 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:16:20 -0800 Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0233F47C88; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:16:18 -0300 (CLST) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:16:18 -0300 From: Alvaro Herrera To: "Campbell, Lance" Cc: Alexander Staubo , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Putting files into fields in a table Message-ID: <20071213201618.GA29619@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <88daf38c0712131138k44a8b046vf9c079c062d3896d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:16:20 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200712/200 X-Sequence-Number: 28016 Campbell, Lance wrote: > I did not see much info in the 8.2 documentation on BLOB. That's because we don't call them "blobs". Search for "large objects" instead: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/largeobjects.html -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvherre/ "Executive Executive Summary: The [Windows] Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history." Peter Guttman, http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt