Re: Need suggestion

On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 07:15:40AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> but you wouldn't have large blobs of data clobbering your "regular" queries.

You would want to write better queries than

    select * from my_table_with_bytea_column;

anyway.

> You could pass the scans and pics piecemeal between client and database

At least for retrieval even BYTEA can be accessed piecemeal:

    select substring(bytea_column from <start> for <number_of_bytes>)

Karsten
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