On Monday 21 April 2003 12:01, Joe Conway wrote:
> Mircea Sarbu wrote:
> > There are some hidden drawbacks for this approach? (I don't need any
> > further processing on the binary content)
> There are people who have reported using this method successfully on the
> Postgres lists. Only downsides I can think of are:
> 1) You have to encode to base64 on the way in (bytea has to be escaped
> on INSERT/UPDATE too)
OpenACS uses this technique. The PostgreSQL driver for AOLserver (which
OpenACS uses) has code -- aolserver.sourceforge.net -- files, nspostgres.
GPL/APL dual-licensed, if that matters.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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