Re: Storing blobs in PG DB - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Nikolay Moskvichev
Subject Re: Storing blobs in PG DB
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Msg-id 1175841962.931010@jet.ru
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In response to Re: Storing blobs in PG DB  (Naz Gassiep <naz@mira.net>)
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Naz Gassiep пишет:
> This doesn't answer your question, but I thought I'd throw my opinion in
> anyway.
>
> My personal view is that in general, binary files have no place in
> databases. Filesystems are for files, databases are for data. My design
> choice is to store the files in a fileystem and use the database to hold
> metadata as well as a pointer to the file.
>

By the way, not exactly the same case, but just some pros and cons:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects/Web_Applications/Development/Database_vs_Filesystem


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