On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > 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. Bytea definitely won't handle more than 1 GB. I don't think the lo interface will handle more than 2GB. > > Preferred way to store 2GB data is to put it into a file and put the > name of the file into the database. This. Cheers, Steve -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
