Re: bytea or blobs?

How can one measure the result of the compression -- can I see this in
some table or with some pgsql command?
At what threshold does it take place, I think its 8192?
The nasty bit is not one picture of 100kb.
Its 20 pictures of 5kb.

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Richard Huxton wrote:

> On Wednesday 18 February 2004 06:44, Dana Hudes wrote:
> >
> > At least with base64 I have ample libraries and can convert my data
> > before sending to sql or after receiving from sql. It becomes my
> > application's issue. Mind, this bloats the data considerably.
> > escape is less bloat but I have to recreate the encode/decode in my app,
> > so far as I see.
> 
> Less bloat than you might expect - large values are TOASTed and compressed. 
> I'm guessing a lot of your redundancy will be eliminated.
> 
> Having said that, bytea's purpose in life is to store your binary data.
> 
>