Re: [GENERAL] Databases compared at zend.com

2001-06-03 Thread Tom Lane
"Richard Huxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps a clear note in the docs - AFAICT, the docs are perfectly clear about this already; see sections 2.1 and 2.2 of the Programmer's Guide. The large object documentation *could* use some cleanup, no doubt --- for one thing, what's it doing in t

Re: [GENERAL] Databases compared at zend.com

2001-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
> As the person who wrote it :) It was my understanding that PostgreSQL > stores large objects on the filesystem outside of the database tables. Definitely not true. I think that was once an available option, many years ago ... but it's not there now. > could someone please describe the actual

Re: [GENERAL] Databases compared at zend.com

2001-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Doug McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good article. The only inaccuracy I saw was that he claims Postgres' > storage of large objects is "in the filesystem" and "inefficient". He may be thinking about the fact that Postgres used to store each large object as a separate table, which did ind

Re: [GENERAL] Databases compared at zend.com

2001-06-01 Thread pgsql-general
Hello, Heh... I wrote that :) J On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Michael wrote: > http://www.zend.com/zend/art/databases.php > > Needless to say Postgresql comes out looking pretty good. Good to have > links like this to show the advantages of Postgresql when I'm trying to > convert others to using it. > >

[GENERAL] Databases compared at zend.com

2001-06-01 Thread Michael
http://www.zend.com/zend/art/databases.php Needless to say Postgresql comes out looking pretty good. Good to have links like this to show the advantages of Postgresql when I'm trying to convert others to using it. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: yo