Thank you Michael. I am using the BIT_LENGTH function which seems to return the size in bits of the stored blob "Michael Fuhr" <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20050125221500.GA96092@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:58:33PM -0500, Carlos wrote: > >> Is there a way that I can find out the size of a bytea record? I am >> storing >> images into bytea fields and I just want to know the size of the image >> that >> it has been saved in the field > > See the "Binary String Functions and Operators" section of the > "Functions and Operators" chapter in the documentation: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-binarystring.html > > -- > Michael Fuhr > http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings