Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL for storing a database of documents

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Chris Bitmead wrote:

// > # 1.  Tuples are limited to 8KB.  I assume even the "text" type is limited
// > # that way.  But my documents may be longer than that.
// >
// >         This isn't a problem, I store all of my photographs
// > in postgres.
//
// How?

    I played with BLOBs, but I didn't like how they were stored, or
that they didn't back up, so I went with Base64 encoded data which I split
up to store.  It's pretty damned quick, and I get a lot more control.

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