The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2236 Logged by: Kai Ronan Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.0.1 Operating system: redhat linux Description: extremely slow to get unescaped bytea data from db Details:
Using php 5.1.2, trying to store images in database using bytea column and pg_unescape_bytea() which is a PHP wrapper for PQunescapeBytea(). It took 77 seconds to extract a 400K gif image from the database. Using a text column and base64 escaping, the same image took <1 to extract from the database. lo functions also work fast. Loading images to the db is fast in all cases. Code snippet is: <?php // Connect to the database $dbconn = pg_connect('dbname=imagedb'); // Get the bytea data $res = pg_query("SELECT data FROM image WHERE name='big.gif'"); // Convert to binary and send to the browser header('Content-type: image/gif'); echo pg_unescape_bytea( pg_fetch_result($res,'data') ); ?> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org