Re: Storing many big files in database- should I do it?

On 4/29/2010 12:07 PM, David Wall wrote:
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>
> Big downside for the DB is that all large objects appear to be stored
> together in pg_catalog.pg_largeobject, which seems axiomatically
> troubling that you know you have lots of big data, so you then store
> them together, and then worry about running out of 'loids'.
Huh ???  isn't that point of using bytea or text datatypes.

I could have sworn bytea does not use large object interface it uses
TOAST or have i gone insane

Many people encode the binary data in Base64  and store as text data
type??  Then never have to deal with escaping  bytea data type. Which i
have found can be a pain

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