Re: Can I Save images in postgres?

On 09/09/2009, at 10:43 AM, John R Pierce wrote:

纪晓曦 wrote:

Can I save images in the postgres? How to define? Does the format matters? Can I save JPG/PNG?How?

you can save images as BYTEA data, and the format is totally up to your application, as postgres just treats it as a block of bytes.    however, I generally find it easier to store my images on a file system, and just put the file path in the database.

By the way, here's a relatively recent discussion of this issue:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-06/msg00599.php

Yar