On Wednesday 08 April 2009 11:56:35 Ian Mayo wrote: > 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 > Maybe I've been reading too much Pascal again lately, but if only 1% of your rows are going to have data in this column, personally, I'd put it in a separate table. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general