Re: Storing many big files in database- should I do it?

On 4/29/2010 3:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>
> However, that toast limit is per-table, whereas the pg_largeobject limit
> is per-database. So for example if you have a partitioned table then
> the toast limit only applies per partition. With large objects you'd
> fall over at 4G objects (probably quite a bit less in practice) no
> matter what.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
has there been any thought of doing something similar to MS filestream ????
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109.aspx

it seems to overcome all the draw backs of storing files in the DB.

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