Re: BYTEA or LO?

On Tue, 31 May 2011 13:40:02 -0500, "ktm@rice.edu" <ktm@rice.edu> wrote:

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> That is needed to use the non-binary API. You can also use hex encoding
> starting with 9.0, I think. The data is stored in binary internally so you
> should not get a 33% bump in size. If you use the binary API, you can avoid
> the hex/base64 encoding pass as well.

I just read the doc but didn't fully understand the binary part.

Do you mean that with BYTEA binary type I can directly R/W my pictures
without any transcoding trick?

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