On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 07:15:40AM +0200, tomas@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > but you wouldn't have large blobs of data clobbering your "regular" queries. You would want to write better queries than select * from my_table_with_bytea_column; anyway. > You could pass the scans and pics piecemeal between client and database At least for retrieval even BYTEA can be accessed piecemeal: select substring(bytea_column from <start> for <number_of_bytes>) Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general