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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Should we consider setting storage external by default for the type?
> 
> No.  That would be counterproductive for the more typical case of bytea
> values in the range of some-small-number-of-kilobytes.  Or at least
> I think that's more typical than values that are so large you have to go
> out of your way to fetch them in chunks.

The typical case that I run into with Bytea is storing enough
information to where this would be useful. Specifically items such as
pdf and .doc.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> 
>                       regards, tom lane
> 


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