Equivalent of mysql type mediablob in postgres?

Started by Chris Barnesabout 16 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Chris Barnes
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I would like to move a table that is used to store images from mysql to postgres. The only stumbling I may encounter, may be switching from mysql blob to something in postgres.

We store chart images in a mysql medium blob type.

How can I store these in postgres?

Chris

| IMAGE | mediumblob | NO | | | |

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#2Thomas Kellerer
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In reply to: Chris Barnes (#1)
Re: Equivalent of mysql type mediablob in postgres?

Chris Barnes wrote on 18.01.2010 21:05:

I would like to move a table that is used to store images from mysql to
postgres. The only stumbling I may encounter, may be switching from
mysql blob to something in postgres.

We store chart images in a mysql medium blob type.

How can I store these in postgres?

bytea is the datatype you are looking for

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-binary.html

Thomas