bytea characteristics
Started by jeff sackstederabout 19 years ago2 messagesgeneral
Are there any known guidelines regarding storing images in a bytea
column vs simply storing the meta-data?
Do the images take up a certain percentage more space due to the on-
disk format when stored this way?
Re: bytea characteristics
jws wrote:
Do the images take up a certain percentage more space due to the on-
disk format when stored this way?
Bytes are pretty much stored just as bytes, with four bytes of overhead
for the length field. Larger values (> 2kB) are stored out of line, so
there really shouldn't be much concern about storing the image data in
the database. It's probably more of a question what makes your
processing easier.
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Peter Eisentraut
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