Ted, > Anyway, I have a follow up question, which applies to both Linux and > databases. I currently work with MySQL and Postgres with PostgreSQL > being my favorite. The project I am working on involves language > dictionary creation and as high as 100,000 web pages many of which can > incorporate the dictionary definitions. The project will take several > years but will appear in bits and pieces on the hosted web site. > Anyway, I need to store these gifs (manufactured according to your > recommendation) in a data base.
You need to store the images as binary data in "Large Objects" (in PostgreSQL, MySQL has an equivilant). Then store the loid in the tables to know where to pull it from. Since you're using Perl, this article won't describe it exactly, but might be a good starting point if you don't get anything Perl-specific. I did it a slightly different way from what this article described and it worked fine. Then I abandoned the method, as it seemed to gain me very little (mostly security (not that that's not important, just that I had better/faster means of accomplishing the same thing)). http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/florian19991014.php3 Good Luck with your project. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
