Re: Need suggestion

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Need suggestion
Date: 2011-06-02 16:58:51
Message-ID: 4DE7C14B.3080902@hogranch.com
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On 06/02/11 2:19 AM, Ognjen Blagojevic wrote:
> 1. Files stored on the filesystem:
> - Small database footprint
> - Faster backup, export and import
>
> 2. Files stored in the database
> - RDBMS takes care of transactions and ref. int.
> - Slower backup, export and import but all done in one step
> - Easier continuous archiving

with many terabytes of large file data accumulating, the database will
become very unweildy to do any maintenance on. a simple pg_dump will
take many hours vs a few minutes.

I would almost certainly use a filesystem for an app like this, and just
store the metadata in the database.

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john r pierce N 37, W 123
santa cruz ca mid-left coast

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