I have not worked with BLOBs in PostgreSQL, but I have inserted large obejects into the database. In PostgreSQL 7.1 and later (maybe 7.0 also, I forget) the text field can hold really large data pieces. I have stored photos in text fields. They were thumbnail size of about 20-30 kb in size. Text fields only hold text so I used MIME::Base64 to convert my images to/from text at write/read time.

In short, there are situations where the overhead of blob processing is unneeded. I have in testing put Base64 text of over a megabyte in a PostgreSQL field.

One caveat is SELECT * from table; with these monster fields embedded in the table.Also the object will have to exist in your programs data space both on insert and extract whereas blobs can be loaded directly to and from flat files.

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