Django's modeling system does not provide native support for large binary data. This raises a variety of challenges in situations where people might use the blob sql data structure.
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Django Blob Model Field
How do you store a "blob" of binary data using Django's ORM, with a PostgreSQL backend? Yes, I know Django frowns upon that sort of thing, and yes, I know they prefer you use the ImageField or FileField for that, but suffice it to say, that's…

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django store image in database
Does anyone know if there's an out-of-the box way of storing images directly in the database vs. using ImageField model type that simply uploads it to the MEDIA_ROOT.
And if there is, how does one serve those images then?
Cheers

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Django Binary or BLOB model field
I have a C# program that inserts a pdf inside a MySQL database. Now I want to retrieve that pdf via django but django's models.FileField needs an "Upload To" parameter which means behind the scenes it actually stores the File on the file system…

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Django models "blob" field
I want to create a table like so -
CREATE TABLE trial_xml (
id int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
pid int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
sid varchar(256) CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL,
data blob,
PRIMARY KEY (soid),
KEY suid_index (suid) )
ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT…

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