On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:38 PM, AI Rumman <rummandba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How to save 2 GB or more text string in Postgresql? > Which data type should I use? If you have to you can use either the lo interface, or you can use bytea. Large Object (i.e. lo) allows for access much like fopen / fseek etc in C, but the actual data are not stored in a row with other data, but alone in the lo space. Bytea is a legit type that you can have as one of many in a row, but you retrieve the whole thing at once when you get the row. Preferred way to store 2GB data is to put it into a file and put the name of the file into the database. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general