[postgis-users] PostGIS and Blobs

[Paul Ramsey]

If you are not managing the rasters, just displaying them, why not just 
store them as files?

Rosangela Silva wrote:
> Paul
>  
> I only need raster like background.
> I have several jpeg+jpgw to be
> handle.
>  
> -------------------------
> It's possible to use BLOBs to hold any data at all, raster included.
> Whether this is a "good idea" for you depends alot on what you are
> trying to do with your data. A possible simple image-holding table for
> postgis might be:
> 
> orig_filename varchar,
> projection varchar,
> collected date,
> extents geometry,
> image blob
> 
> 


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