| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Extending varlena |
| Date: | 2008-08-18 22:21:45 |
| Message-ID: | 20080818222145.GF7447@fetter.org |
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:09:13PM -0400, Andrew Chernow wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> As the things stored in databases grow, we're going to start
>> needing to think about database objects that 4 bytes of size can't
>> describe. People are already storing video in lo and bytea fields.
>> To date, the sizes of media files have never trended downward.
>
> I always find these requests puzzling. Is it really useful to store
> the data for a jpeg, video file or a 10GB tar ball in a database
> column?
It is if you need transaction semantics. Think medical records, etc.
Cheers,
David.
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