| From: | Paul Ramsey <pramsey(at)refractions(dot)net> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah(at)cs(dot)earlham(dot)edu>, postgres list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: > 16TB worth of data question |
| Date: | 2003-04-21 18:45:20 |
| Message-ID: | 3EA43C40.6070300@refractions.net |
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Neil Conway wrote:
>
>>Would life better to not store the
>>images as BLOBS, and instead come up with some complicated way to only
>>store the location in the database
>
> FWIW, storing the FS location in the database is by no means
> complicated. I'm personally not very fond of doing that, but not because
> it's overly complex...
Heck, is the Pg BLOB interface anything more than a cute hook into
filesystem storage? I've often wondered what the point of BLOBs is,
beyond providing a single API to all the data (maybe that *is* the
point). Is there a performance advantage?
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