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docs: Add example on how to automatically store mimetype in files table
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wolfgangwalther committed Feb 18, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -81,9 +81,11 @@ First, in addition to the minimal example, we need to store the media types and
.. code-block:: postgres
alter table files
add column type text,
add column type text generated always as (byteamagic_mime(substr(blob, 0, 4100))) stored,
add column name text;
This uses the :code:`byteamagic_mime()` function from the `pg_byteamagic extension <https://github.com/nmandery/pg_byteamagic>`_ to automatically generate the mimetype in the :code:`files` table. To guess the type of a file, it's generally enough to look at the beginning of the file, which is more efficient.

Next, we set modify the function to set the content type and filename.
We use this opportunity to configure some basic, client-side caching.
For production, you probably want to configure additional caches, e.g. on the :ref:`reverse proxy <nginx>`.
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