Re: Video storage in Postgres?

Totally agree on this topic area as I've spent time with several online
video companies around this topic.

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[mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 6:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Video storage in Postgres?

Greg,

> It's not as slick as having libpq do it in general but an awful lot of
> things would have to change to make streaming out a video stored in a
> single datum possible -- not just in libpq but in the server as well.

Let me add it to TODO then. We'd capture a whole new user community if
we
had a decent streaming API. If we could use the same mechanism to
return
a few rows at a time, then that would be keen too ...

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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