Hi,
I need to store large files (from several MB to 1GB) in Postgres database.
The database has multiple schemas. It looks like Postgres has 2 options to
store large objects: LOB and BYTEA. However we seem to hit problems with
each of these options.
1. LOB. This works almost ideal, can stor
>Large Objects and bytea are the only ways.
>
>If you want to pg_dump only certain large objects, that won't work as far
as I know (maybe using permissions and a non-superuser can help).
>
>You absolutely need to pg_dump parts of the database regularly?
>
>Yours,
>Laurenz Albe
It is n
>I believe the general consensus around here is to not do that, if you can
avoid it. File systems are much better equipped to handle files of that
magnitude, especially when it comes to retrieving them, scanning >through
their contents, or really, any access pattern aside from simple storage.
>
>Yeah, a pg_dump mode that dumped everything but large objects would be
nice.
There is option -b for pg_dump which controls whether large objects are
dumped or no. The problem is that with option -b it dumps all large objects
regardless of what schema you requested it to dump using option -n.
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