I didn't want to make a comment since I didn't have any clever to say,
and I didn't want to "steer' the conversation away from the topic at
hand (get it? :)
*queue wah wah sound*
Anyways, I think the analogy is quite fitting, although I'm curious to
see what the vegetarians amongst us can come up with as a retort :)
Someone with more artistic talent than myself should also make some
quirky comic-book style pictures to vividly illustrate Paul's point
(which, terrible puns and fun analogies aside, seems to be a good one!)
Tim S.
On Nov 11, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
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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