In this week's General Bits, we talk about using
large objects. Perhaps this might help you understand
what is involved with using them.
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/
cheers,
elein@varlena.com
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:41:28AM +0530, Kumar wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
> I am running Postgres 7.3.4 on RH Linux 7.2.
>
> I am migrating MS SQL DB to Postgres DB. I have tables with columns of data
> type 'Image' in the MS SQL database.
> IF I choose 'bytea' datatype, I am afraid it may lead to poor performance of
> the database (which I read from the manual). In this case what is the best data
> type to use.
>
> Please suggest me. The explanation of using LOB objects in a table and to write
> them with image is not very clear in the documentation. Can any one send me any
> link or white paper or examples about it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kumar
>