Re: [GENERAL] Can I store bitmap graphics in a table?

At 11:06 +0300 on 28/7/98, Henning Hucke wrote:


>
> > [... Storing graphics in a postgresql db ...]
> > You can't. There is a limit on the tuple size, restricting it to 8k. If you
> > could guarantee that your images are no more than, say, 1K - I'd say you
> > can uuencode them or translate to hex, and put it in a text column. A byte
> > array is another option. But in the 50k to 100k, it's large objects.
>
> Even without having tried it I am rather shure that you are wrong. The 8k
> barrier applies AFAIK only to the normal datatypes like text and so. AFAIK
> the LOI is capable to store big graphics in the database.

Well, he asked for a way to do it as a normal datatype, without using the
(awkward) lo interface. Of course you can do it with LOs.

Herouth

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