In this week's General Bits, we talk about using large objects. Perhaps this might help you understand what is involved with using them.
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/ cheers, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:41:28AM +0530, Kumar wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I am running Postgres 7.3.4 on RH Linux 7.2. > > I am migrating MS SQL DB to Postgres DB. I have tables with columns of data > type 'Image' in the MS SQL database. > IF I choose 'bytea' datatype, I am afraid it may lead to poor performance of > the database (which I read from the manual). In this case what is the best data > type to use. > > Please suggest me. The explanation of using LOB objects in a table and to write > them with image is not very clear in the documentation. Can any one send me any > link or white paper or examples about it. > > Thanks in advance. > > Kumar > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])