Re: [GENERAL] bytea characteristics

2007-02-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
jws wrote: Do the images take up a certain percentage more space due to the on- disk format when stored this way? Bytes are pretty much stored just as bytes, with four bytes of overhead for the length field. Larger values ( 2kB) are stored out of line, so there really shouldn't be much

[GENERAL] bytea characteristics

2007-02-09 Thread jws
Are there any known guidelines regarding storing images in a bytea column vs simply storing the meta-data? Do the images take up a certain percentage more space due to the on- disk format when stored this way? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't