On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:57:25AM -0500, Jay Pipes wrote: > Sitting here with Dups at my kitchen table discussing this... Dups came > up with an excellent analogy: > > "Sometimes you want to store a steak in the refrigerator -- you know, if > you're gonna eat it in short order. But most of the time, you put the > steak in the freezer. Storing BLOBs in the database is like throwing > the cow into the refrigerator: sure, you can probably do it with some > careful maneuvering, but it's probably not going to be that useful."
What is this 'steak' thing you talk of? I am unfamiliar with such things. :) I'm more excited about the idea of being able to have client process the non-blob parts of the row first - and sending in a way that can easily cancel transmission (e.g. found/didn't find what you were looking for) -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
