Re: PDF files: to store in database or not - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: PDF files: to store in database or not
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In response to Re: PDF files: to store in database or not  (David Wall <d.wall@computer.org>)
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On 12/6/2016 11:21 AM, David Wall wrote:
>
> The advantages of storing in the database is that a DB backup will
> have everything, instead of a DB backup and a file system backup.
> Using a BLOB, you can certainly keep track of variable length PDFs.

and one of the disadvantages of storing in the database is those db
backups become way huger if there's a lot of this file data.


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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz



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