On Saturday 04 January 2003 04:48, Pete Beck wrote: > I agree with Sun 100% on this. Using the file-system is bad news for > maintenance, scalability and as the article says security. > I've seen the chaos that using the filesystem can cause in clustered > environments and I would say avoid it if you can. > > Of course, the problem is Oracle seems to have totally pathetic support > for large objects from Java. However I am using Postgres and it works > like a charm.
Postgres is more natural, yes. However, Oracle's support is still good. You just need to use a combination of the JDBC LOB support with the DBMS_LOB package. We use a combination of stored procedures that manipulate the LOB using DBMS_LOB.getlength(), DBMS_LOB.read(), DBMS_LOB.write(), and DBMS_LOB.copy(), in combination with the getBlob(), select, and select for update operations. Postgres is pretty much the same, but supports most of these operations directly from the JDBC driver, instead of through a database package for LOB operations. The only difference I can see from a usability standpoint, is Postgres lacks a copy operation. You would have to write a stored procedure in C I would imagine, to obtain this goal in Postgres. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
