| From: | Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il> |
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| To: | "Gregory W Burnham" <gburnham(at)sfu(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] Large objects, why not use the filesystem? |
| Date: | 1999-02-01 13:47:30 |
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At 15:28 +0200 on 01/02/1999, Gregory W Burnham wrote:
> Right, but I'm storing html and gif in my blobs and just
> writing them out to stdout. Why shouldn't I just store
> the file names and put the files right on the server?
No reason at all. If it works for your application, then Buy Nike... oops,
I meant "Just Do It". There are pros and cons for Blobs. If the pros don't
hold for you, don't use Blobs.
> To quote a friend of mine, "Efficiency is an issue only when
> inefficiency is a problem." But still, you want to be as
> efficient as possible, right? In retrospec, it would have
> been more efficient to store all four digits of the year, right?
Actually, it would simply have postponed the problem to a later date...
Herouth
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Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
Open University of Israel - Telem project
http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma
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