Re: storing a text file

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:39:13AM -0500, Mag Gam wrote:
> I would like to index several documents. They are all text files, I
> was wondering what is the best way to do this. I was thinking to have
> a column which will have:
>
> *docid (serial)
> date (timestamp)
> document (varchar)
>
> Eventually, I would like to access these documents via a webbrowser
> and I would like to search these documents. Each document is about 10
> to 20kb in size.
>
> My question is, what datatype would be ideal for "document" field?
> Also, any thoughts and recommendations ?

Make it a TEXT type. You can use PostgreSQL's full text search options for
searching across the set of all documents for given words or phrases.

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