PostgreSQL: 8.2
I am looking at the possibility of storing files in some of my database tables. My concern is obviously performance. I have configured PostgreSQL to take advantage of Linux file caching. So my PostgreSQL does not have a large setting for shared_buffers even though I have 24G of memory. The performance today is very good.
Some questions I have:
What data type should I use for fields that hold files?
Is there anything that I should be aware of when putting files into a field in a table?
When PostgreSQL accesses a table that has fields that contain files does it put the fields that contain the files into the shared_buffers memory area?
Thanks,
Lance Campbell
Project Manager/Software Architect
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