Long live the meat! Jim Starkey wrote: > Paul McCullagh wrote: >> Hi Jay, >> >> Let's assume for the moment that the BLOB implementation in MySQL was, >> well, "as it should be". >> >> Which would mean there are no adverse affects to storing BLOBs in a >> table, the application can handle the large objects without any >> special considerations, and the whole thing scales. >> >> In other words: >> >> - The programmer does not have to make special arrangements to handle >> BLOBs. >> - The DBA does not have to make special arrangements to get a >> consistent backup or replicate the data. >> >> If this was the case: >> >> Would you change your mind about whether storing BLOBs in the database >> is a bad design decision? >> >> So I think Jim's point is this. Yes, putting a cow in a (normal) >> fridge does not work. >> >> But *not* because putting a cow in a fridge is a bad design idea. But >> rather because the average fridge is not correctly designed for this. >> >> On the other hand, ask a butcher and he will show his fridge which is >> designed for this purpose, and explain the utility of it :) >> >> I agree that Drizzle should focus core development elsewhere. But we >> are many in the community... so we can do this as well. And the >> additional functionality can be made pluggable. >> > > Paul, we aren't going to win an argument with vegetarians for optimizing > storage for dead cows. Gotta find another analogy... > > Jay, you set us up here, right? >
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