Re: Storing large files in multiple schemas: BLOB or BYTEA

On Oct 10, 2012, at 6:12 AM, tigran2-postgres@riatest.com wrote:

> 2. BYTEA. These are correctly stored per schema so pg_dump –n works correctly however I cannot seem to find a way to stream the data. This means that there is no way to access the data from PHP if it is larger than memory limit.

You can get the octet length and then use the substring function to grab large columns in chunks. See

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/functions-binarystring.html


John DeSoi, Ph.D.