On 9 January 2012 09:56, Damiano ALBANI >> I believe DB2 is pretty much it in this area. > > For the record, it looks like MS SQL Server has some equivalent feature : > FILESTREAM.
And Oracle has BFILE. I've actually been thinking about how to implement something like this for Postgres, but the interaction with the file-system makes it a little more difficult to implement. Someone shouldn't be able to delete a file from the file-system that's still referenced from the database. Perhaps a file-system layer with FusionFS would be a suitable solution for something like this, but I couldn't convince myself that it is. In the end, it probably requires a custom file-system implementation that needs maintaining across all operating systems that Postgres runs on. That's a major undertaking! -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
