Cheers Tom, On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ian Mayo <ianmayo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> [snip] > No. You'd basically be manually reinventing the TOAST mechanism; > or the large object mechanism, if you choose to store the blob > as a large object rather than a plain bytea field. Either way, > it won't physically be in the same table as the main row data. fine, that keeps the design simpler > If you're curious, this goes into some of the gory details: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/storage-toast.html Oooh, no, much too gory for me. > regards, tom lane thanks again. One more thing: hey, did you hear? I just got some advice from Tom Lane! Ian -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
