On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:09:13PM -0400, Andrew Chernow wrote: > David Fetter wrote: >> Folks, >> >> As the things stored in databases grow, we're going to start >> needing to think about database objects that 4 bytes of size can't >> describe. People are already storing video in lo and bytea fields. >> To date, the sizes of media files have never trended downward. > > I always find these requests puzzling. Is it really useful to store > the data for a jpeg, video file or a 10GB tar ball in a database > column?
It is if you need transaction semantics. Think medical records, etc. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
