Dealing with BLOBs in Postgres?

Greyfox asks: "I've got a question and it's been bugging me for a while. I'm trying to do some database programming with Java and PostgresSQL. I've got an array of bytes I'd like to store in the database and I can't quite figure out how to do it. I've tried the method suggested in their old documentation (Which involves doing some JDBC thing with a FileInputStream) and some esoteric BLOB thing involving ResultSet.setBytes() and a more esoteric BLOB thing involving their LargeObjectManager and when I'm at my most successful I get error messages back griping about unexpected EOFs from the connection manager or somesuch. The documentation, example code and web searches have all been profoundly unhelpful. Am I going about this the right way and if I am, what am I missing?"

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Re:Possible Solution

[Greyfox]

Hmm. Perhaps I should look at some other database systems then. I seem to recall that us private users can get Oracle or DB/2 for free or relatively free. No point in trying to use a hammer to drive a screw...