On 06/02/11 2:19 AM, Ognjen Blagojevic wrote:
1. Files stored on the filesystem:
- Small database footprint
- Faster backup, export and import

2. Files stored in the database
- RDBMS takes care of transactions and ref. int.
- Slower backup, export and import but all done in one step
- Easier continuous archiving

with many terabytes of large file data accumulating, the database will become very unweildy to do any maintenance on. a simple pg_dump will take many hours vs a few minutes.

I would almost certainly use a filesystem for an app like this, and just store the metadata in the database.

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john r pierce                            N 37, W 123
santa cruz ca                         mid-left coast


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