On 06/02/11 2:19 AM, Ognjen Blagojevic wrote:
> 1. Files stored on the filesystem:
> - Small database footprint
> - Faster backup, export and import
>
> 2. Files stored in the database
> - RDBMS takes care of transactions and ref. int.
> - Slower backup, export and import but all done in one step
> - Easier continuous archiving
with many terabytes of large file data accumulating, the database will
become very unweildy to do any maintenance on. a simple pg_dump will
take many hours vs a few minutes.
I would almost certainly use a filesystem for an app like this, and just
store the metadata in the database.
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