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From Frank Joerdens
Subject To BLOB Or Not To BLOB
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Msg-id 20000416135248.A26449@rakete.joerdens.de
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Responses Re: To BLOB Or Not To BLOB  ("Robert B. Easter" <reaster@comptechnews.com>)
Re: To BLOB Or Not To BLOB  (Marten Feldtmann <marten@feki.toppoint.de>)
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A while ago it was being held that the Postgres large object data type
was too new and not sufficiently tested and mature to be used in a
production environment. I am about to deploy a little database that
involves storing large-ish text files (20-500k) which could be either done
as large objects or as pointers to those files that would be then stored
as ordinary files in the OS's filesystem. I am undecided as to this
question. What are the pros and cons? What is the performance in either
case vis-a-vis the other? It is a web app; the interface is done in PHP.
Beginning from which version is the large object interface (if at all)
to be considered stable and ready for production?

cheers frank

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