Re: Picture with Postgres and Delphi

>> There is no need for manually storing files on filesystem, because
>> large objects are doing that for You. I am storing whole binary files
>> in blobs(synonym for large objects from some other platforms), and I do
>> not remember that I had a single problem with that. Do not forget that
>> libpq has great support for large objects, and you can store large
>> object without actually storing them on server filesystem, so You do
>> not need any file permissions on "upload directory" or something like
>> that.
>
> The pictures are prepared for web. Storing in files is faster from
> that side. That system is calling db every 30 mins...
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Has anyone done any benchmarks on this to know what the performance
differences are for downloads (I'm not concerned about uploads since they're
far less frequent) from a web server such as Apache HTTPd accessing the file
system directly vs. a CGI script/program sending it dynamically through
Apache HTTPd?

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