From: Herouth Maoz <herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il>
To: Gregory W Burnham <gburnham@sfu.ca>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Large objects, why not use the filesystem?
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:47:30 +0200
Message-ID: <l03110705b2db5fd79a43@[147.233.159.109]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001f01be4de6$b7757e60$8d0835d1@bconnected.net>
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
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