On Wednesday May 18 2005 2:10 pm, Ed L. wrote: > What are the tradeoffs of storing images as bytea vs blobs? Actually, I see you can't store/retrieve blobs remotely, which is a non-starter. So the remaining choices seem to be bytea vs. storing only metadata and keeping the images elsewhere (maybe an apache image server). Other thoughts? Ed ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq