Re: not really SQL but I need info on BLOBs - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: not really SQL but I need info on BLOBs
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Msg-id 20040506125506.GA14119@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: not really SQL but I need info on BLOBs  (Theodore Petrosky <tedpet5@yahoo.com>)
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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:46:22AM -0700, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Are there (in your opinion)
> reasons why you would choose to store the images in
> the db? 

Transactional integrity.  If there's a risk that people are
going to be deleting, &c. these images, then you can end up with
references in the database to files that don't exist, because the
filesystem operations can't be made subject to the transactions of
the database.

A


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