Guy Rouillier wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>
>>External storing is useful but I prefer LO because all my data (binary
>>and meta) is all in the same place for management.
>
>
> But if that's a big L in LO, performance and maintenance will be
> negatively affected, perhaps significantly.
How?
The DBMS will have to scan
> over all that large binary data to extract text or numeric data.
Ahhh now I see, are you expecting to be able to query your LOs? We only
use Large Objects as a storage mechanism.
And
> backups will copy that static binary data repeatedly.
Not unless you tell it to. If you don't pass the -b option you are not
going to end up backing up your large objects anyway.
For those
> reasons, if I'm storing very large objects, like images, that I know
> I'll never search or update, I prefer to manage them externally.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
