Re: Picture with Postgres and Delphi

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Darko Prenosil wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edwin Quijada" <listas_quijada@hotmail.com>
> To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:54 PM
> Subject: [GENERAL] Picture with Postgres and Delphi
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>
> > Hi !! Everybody
> > I am developing app using Delphi and I have a question:
> > I have to save pictures into my database. Each picture has 20 o 30k aprox.
> > What is the way more optimus?
> > That 's table will have 500000 records around. Somebody said the best way
> to
> > do that was encoder the picture to field bytea but I dont know about this.
> > Another way is save the path to the picture file but I dont like so much
> > because I need to write to disk by OS and have permission to write a
> > directory to OS.
> > What do u think??
>
> You may choose between Bytea or large objects.
> I had some problems with bytea on earlier version of pg (7.2 I think), but
> last time I checked (7.3), all worked fine.
> However, I use large objects.
> The only disadvantage of large objects I see is that You can't dump them
> into textual dump. You must use binary dumps.

for portability, I've always base64 encoded and stored them as straight
text.  That works well too.