BLOBs and alternatives - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kent L. Nasveschuk
Subject BLOBs and alternatives
Date
Msg-id 1067370410.2626.24.camel@1134
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List pgsql-admin
Hello,
I am building a database for company employee info/records system. I
just wanted to solicit some opinions on storage of images and documents.

I'm using PG 7.3.4 on a Slackware 9 Linux system.I anticipate that the
database will be at the bottom of a 3 tier design accessed through a web
browser. The majority of data is structured data that fits nicely into
standard data types. I do have a few things that should either be stored
as BLOBs or separately in a file system. The entries in the database
could reference attributes such as:

absolute path
relative path
mime type or file type
name
IP address


These are things such as scanned images, training certificates,
licenses, diplomas,text docs, etc. What I was looking for is support for
either way or if you have some other ideas. I've read opinions
supporting both methods, I don't have experience in storage and
retrieval of objects described above.



Many thanks.
--
Kent L. Nasveschuk <kent@wareham.k12.ma.us>


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