From: Gregory W Burnham <gburnham@sfu.ca>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
To: Gene Selkov Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Large objects, why not use the filesystem?
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 04:01:21 -0800
Message-ID: <00cc01be4dda$9660fb20$8d0835d1@bconnected.net> (raw)
>> Right. That would be a place where you couldn't use Matthew's
>> suggestion. But in my case my 'client' is, ultimately, a cgi.
>> And now I'm wondering, why am I not using files? I would hope
>> that postgres would be providing me with some kind of superior
>> performance than the file system. Infact, I've always assumed
>> it. But was I right to assume that? Are there benchmarks out
>> there?
>
>No benchmarks are needed. Large objects are stored one per file,
>therefore you will see the same preformance.
Ok, I've seen all the xinv* files, I understand that. But what
if the benefit of using large objects over files? If there isn't
superior performance then why do it?
Gregory W Burnham
Software Engineer
Excite Labs
Faculty Of Education
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC, V5A 1S6
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