On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 23:04:57 -0500 "Chad Wagner" <chad.wagner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have plenty of experience building large distributed OLTP systems and > multi terabyte data warehouses, so you can either take the advice or leave > it. > Me too, since Oracle 6, Informix and Ingres in the late 80's until today. What I don't have experience of, and what you omitted from this informative post are expeciences of postgres 8.x's handling of blobs - the question I asked - rather than the effect of using text columns which is a different question altogether. Steve
