Received: from mx99.openu.ac.il (arbel.openu.ac.il [147.233.32.4]) by hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA98128 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 08:46:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il) Received: from talmon.openu.ac.il (talmon.openu.ac.il [147.233.32.11]) by mx99.openu.ac.il (Postfix) with ESMTP for id BB7424B4A6; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:47:08 +0200 (IST) Received: from [147.233.159.109] (mac-herouth.pc.openu.ac.il) by talmon.openu.ac.il (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA6BC7; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:48:15 +0200 X-Sender: herouth@shaked.cc.openu.ac.il Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <001f01be4de6$b7757e60$8d0835d1@bconnected.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:47:30 +0200 To: "Gregory W Burnham" From: Herouth Maoz Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Large objects, why not use the filesystem? Cc: 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 -- Herouth Maoz, Internet developer. Open University of Israel - Telem project http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma