From: | Tommy Gildseth <tommy(at)gildseth(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Best way to store and retrieve photo from PostGreSQL |
Date: | 2007-02-25 16:23:21 |
Message-ID: | 45E1B7F9.9050804@gildseth.com |
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Andreas Kretschmer wrote:
> Alain Roger <raf(dot)news(at)gmail(dot)com> schrieb:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to store picture in my DB and after to display them on my PHP
>> pages.
>>
>> What is the best solution for that ?
>>
>
> Store the pictures in the filesystem and only the path, description and
> other metadata in the database. My suggestion ;-)
One problem with this approach, is that you move the responsibility for
maintaining data integrity from the database, to the application code
using the database. You introduce 2 points of failure, where you risk
adding the image to the filesystem, without it being added to the
database, and the other way around. The same issue appears with
deleting/updating.
In addition, if there is a large amount of images, you probably do not
want to keep all images in the same folder. So you introduce extra
complexity in order to maintain a directory structure, and some sort of
logic for sorting the images in this structure.
--
Tommy
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