Re: binary data types and streaming

David Durham wrote:
>     What are the differences between using the bytea type and the
> BLOB type?

The bytea type exists, the blob type does not.

>     Is there any type of streaming support built into postgres'
> binary datatype handling?  For instance, can I specify a beginning
> offset for the binary data that I want>

substring and other such functions are available.

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Peter Eisentraut
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