Re: Storing many big files in database- should I do it?

Le 29/04/2010 18:45, Justin Graf a écrit :
> On 4/29/2010 12:07 PM, David Wall wrote:
>>
>>
>> Big downside for the DB is that all large objects appear to be stored
>> together in pg_catalog.pg_largeobject, which seems axiomatically
>> troubling that you know you have lots of big data, so you then store
>> them together, and then worry about running out of 'loids'.
> Huh ???  isn't that point of using bytea or text datatypes.
>
> I could have sworn bytea does not use large object interface it uses
> TOAST or have i gone insane
>

You're not insane :)

Put it another way: bytea values are not stored in the pg_largeobject
catalog.


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