Hi all,
I'm designing a Postgresql database, and would appreciate this design advice.
I've got a fairly straightforward table that's similar to a blog table
(entryId, date, title, author, etc). There is, however, the
requirement to allow a single, fairly bulky binary attachment to
around 1% of th
Cheers Tom,
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ian Mayo 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 f
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Robert Treat
wrote:
> 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.
thanks for that Robert - it does match my (completely groundless)
first im