Re: Picture with Postgres and Delphi

What is the size limit of bytea, I thought it was 8K?

How do you dump your database when you have bytea, do you need to do a
binary dump?

What are you using to insert the binary data?

Thank you in advance.

Guy

Jonathan Bartlett wrote:

>>For the education of me and maybe others too, why was
>>that?  i.e. what problems did you run into, that bytea avoids?
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>Compared to the filesystem, bytea provides data integrity.
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>Bytea gives you remote access, which you can cache if needed.
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>Bytea gives you the same permissions as anything else in Postgres, so you
>don't have to worry about that separately.
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>Compared to BLOBs, bytea's are just simpler.  You can select them with a
>single statement, you don't have to worry about leaving unreferenced
>BLOBs, and, after 4 billion inserts, byteas are still meaningful while
>BLOBs might not be. (due to OID problems).
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>Jon
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