Re: [GENERAL] Data type for storing images?

2001-03-13 Thread David Wall
> I am not sure what your exact purpose is, but in doing a lot of web > work with pgsql, I usually just store the full path to the image in a > varchar field and fetch that right into the IMG SRC attribute when I > need to display the image. Why would a full path in a IMG tag work? Doesn't your

Re: [GENERAL] Data type for storing images?

2001-03-12 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 08:48:21PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: [ . . . ] > bytea is probably your best bet. The 8k limit is toast in 7.1, btw. Is that whay you named it TOAST, in order to be able to say that? :))) Regards, Frank ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [GENERAL] Data type for storing images?

2001-03-11 Thread David Wall
> bytea is probably your best bet. The 8k limit is toast in 7.1, btw. If you're using JDBC, you may not be able to get bytea types to work. I was able to get the SQL type OID to work with JDBC's get/setBytes() methods. You may also want to use 7.1 since I believe it's large object support is im

Re: [GENERAL] Data type for storing images?

2001-03-11 Thread Tom Lane
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to store some images in my Postgres database. These will > all be thumbnails, limited to 4k or 5k. I know that PG has an 8k row > limit, but this should be fine, because there's not much else in the > row. Which data type could I use to store them, and

[GENERAL] Data type for storing images?

2001-03-11 Thread drevil
I would like to store some images in my Postgres database. These will all be thumbnails, limited to 4k or 5k. I know that PG has an 8k row limit, but this should be fine, because there's not much else in the row. Which data type could I use to store them, and is there a performance cost for ha