[GENERAL] used for large media files

2009-06-17 Thread Mike Kay
Greetings. I am in the process of deciding my infrastruture for a web based application dealing with audio, video and image files. In my discussions with web developers PostgreSql came up as a candidate for my database. This is my FIRST introduction to this database, although I've heard of it - I

Re: [GENERAL] used for large media files

2009-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Mike Kay mike...@channelk.ca: Greetings. I am in the process of deciding my infrastruture for a web based application dealing with audio, video and image files. In my discussions with web developers PostgreSql came up as a candidate for my database. This is my FIRST

Re: [GENERAL] used for large media files

2009-06-17 Thread Mike Kay
Now that's an interesting way of doing this I never thought about before. Using a fileserver though, how would I categorize and index the files? I was planning on using multiple databases to hold the data - one for each client and a separate database for each file type. Yes, they would be hosted

Re: [GENERAL] used for large media files

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Mike Kay wrote: Now that's an interesting way of doing this I never thought about before. Using a fileserver though, how would I categorize and index the files? I was planning on using multiple databases to hold the data - one for each client and a separate

Re: [GENERAL] used for large media files

2009-06-17 Thread justin
Steve Atkins wrote: On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Mike Kay wrote: Now that's an interesting way of doing this I never thought about before. Using a fileserver though, how would I categorize and index the files? I was planning on using multiple databases to hold the data - one for each