On Oct 6, 2006, at 01:29 , Jean-Christophe Roux wrote:

> By the way, is it practical to set a bytea column (containing
> pictures) as primary key? That would severely slow down many
> operations I guess.

Why would you? It's possible, but completely impractical, since image
data typically exceeds the index page size. Moreover, are you really
going to retrieve an image row by its image data?

Alexander.

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