Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C113EB5DBD9 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 18:00:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69051-02 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 21:00:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5A18B5D944 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 18:00:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 May 2011 21:00:42 -0000 Received: from p57AC8A7D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO hermes.hilbert.loc) [87.172.138.125] by mail.gmx.net (mp050) with SMTP; 18 May 2011 23:00:42 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1433807 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19sQlhWISVsplvuDfMSMIL+b4Da0/uiPAy+GCu74x gwdj4wIJ40Lm+5 Received: from ncq by hermes.hilbert.loc with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QMnrF-0007Uq-Ki for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 23:00:41 +0200 Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 23:00:41 +0200 From: Karsten Hilbert To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: column type for pdf file Message-ID: <20110518210041.GF2498@hermes.hilbert.loc> References: <4DD42A1C.30202@encs.concordia.ca> <4DD4301F.4010403@ulb.ac.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DD4301F.4010403@ulb.ac.be> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.899 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201105/105 X-Sequence-Number: 35389 On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:46:23PM +0200, Julien Cigar wrote: > Unless you've good reasons to do so it's best to store the file on > the file system Why ? If you suggest reasons are needed for storing the PDF in the database I'd like to know the reasons for *not* doing so. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346