Re: PDF files: to store in database or not

On 12/08/2016 07:16 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, John DeSoi wrote:
>
>> I have been storing PDFs in Postgres for several years without any
>> problems. Documents range in size from a few pages to 100+ pages. I'm
>> using a bytea column, not large objects. I store the documents in a
>> separate database from the rest of the application data in order to make
>> it easy to exclude in database dumps or backup in some other way. I'm
>> currently managing about 600,000 documents.
>
> John,
>
>   This is really good information. Rather than using a separate database I
> think that storing all PDFs in a separate table makes sense for my
> application. Backup practices will be the domain of those using the
> application (which I've decided to open-source and give away because I'm
> not
> in the software business). A simple join to the appropriate data table will
> make them available.
>
>   Not having used the bytea data type before I'll read how to work with it.

http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/usage.html?highlight=binary#adapt-binary

>
> Thanks very much for your insights,
>
> Rich
>
>


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