Re: LOADING A PDF FILE INTO A FIELD OF A TABLE AS A BLOB

[Peter Brawley]

No functionality I know of in MySQL reads pdfs, so the more efficient approach is to save in the table the path to the document, move the document to that location, and in your app write a function that retrieves urls including pdfs---unless the app runs in a web browser and the database is on a web server, in which case the browser will open the pdf if its path is a valid url.