Re: [GENERAL] SQL & Binary Data Questions

2006-05-22 Thread Ragnar
On fös, 2006-05-19 at 12:21 -0700, Siah wrote: > Some pointers could help. & any arguments pro/against saving bin data > in db? pro: backups can be made with pg_dump only. if binary data is stored in filesystem, your backup procedure gets more complicated, specially if your binary files can get

Re: [GENERAL] SQL & Binary Data Questions

2006-05-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:21:28 -0700, Siah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some pointers could help. & any arguments pro/against saving bin data > in db? If you want transactional semantics you want the data in the DB. If not, then you will probably get better perfomance if it isn't. ---

Re: [GENERAL] SQL & Binary Data Questions

2006-05-21 Thread Siah
Some pointers could help. & any arguments pro/against saving bin data in db? Thanks, Sia ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] SQL & Binary Data Questions

2006-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
"Siah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any better method of pushing binary data to > postgres besides parsing it into ascii sql which seems extremely > inefficient to me. Yeah, send it as an out-of-line binary parameter. Dunno whether you can get at that from Python though :-(