From: Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Gregory W Burnham <gburnham@sfu.ca>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Large objects, why not use the filesystem?
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 13:26:09 +0000
Message-ID: <36B5AB71.ACBA1716@alumni.caltech.edu> (raw)
References: <00cc01be4dda$9660fb20$8d0835d1@bconnected.net>
> 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?
To provide a consistant access interface in a client-server environment.
Managing one interface is usually easier than managing several (e.g.
postgres, html, ftp, ...) to support a single app.
I would expect the performance of LOs to be somewhat worse than direct
file system access to the same data, for a variety of reasons. But for
many applications that performance difference is not a critical issue.
- Tom
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