Thanks for the replies, and suggestion from Ognjen, Ben Chobot, John R Pierce, Tomás, and Karsten... I checked the links, and I decided, that I cannot decide :-) because I don't know, how large could be the infrastructure for this. If I store the images, and scanned docus in the database, a radically larger enviroment will be needed, than if I store only the link. My boss will decide, and I will implement anything, that he wants, I just wanted to collect some experience, that you have, and that you have provided form me, and many thanks for it :-)
Thanks again,
Regards,
Carl.
2011/6/3 Karsten Hilbert
<Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 07:15:40AM +0200,
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> but you wouldn't have large blobs of data clobbering your "regular" queries.
select * from my_table_with_bytea_column;
anyway.
> You could pass the scans and pics piecemeal between client and database
At least for retrieval even BYTEA can be accessed piecemeal:
select substring(bytea_column from <start> for <number_of_bytes>)
Karsten
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