Re: [INTERFACES] Large objects, why not use the filesystem?

----- Original Message -----
From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il>
To: Gregory W Burnham <gburnham(at)sfu(dot)ca>
Cc: <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Large objects, why not use the filesystem?

>At 15:28 +0200 on 01/02/1999, Gregory W Burnham wrote:
>
>
>> Right, but I'm storing html and gif in my blobs and just
>> writing them out to stdout. Why shouldn't I just store
>> the file names and put the files right on the server?
>
>No reason at all. If it works for your application, then Buy Nike... oops,
>I meant "Just Do It". There are pros and cons for Blobs. If the pros don't
>hold for you, don't use Blobs.

Right, obviously. I'd just always assumed that lo_s were more
efficient. Now one of my beliefs is shot and I'm crushed. But
don't worry, I'll be ok.

>> To quote a friend of mine, "Efficiency is an issue only when
>> inefficiency is a problem." But still, you want to be as
>> efficient as possible, right? In retrospec, it would have
>> been more efficient to store all four digits of the year, right?
>
>Actually, it would simply have postponed the problem to a later date...

We should be using 5 digits, right?

Gregory W Burnham
Software Engineer
Excite Labs
Faculty Of Education
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC, V5A 1S6
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