Sorry for the digression. But I hold a slightly different view. Filesystems do not have a transactional nor a distributed interface.
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Florian Schaper wrote: > You most likely don't want to store binary data in any database. Storage of > data is better left to the filesystem since you most likely don't want so > search for bit-patterns? > > That rule is valid for most databases since it slowes them down conciderably > .) > > ./regards > > Florian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Saxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:05 AM > Subject: best practice inserting bobs or images into xindice > > > > Hi > > I am just beginning with Xindice 1.0. This is fun! > > > > I have a couple questions. > > > > I have IDREFs. e.g. reference from employee to boss. is there any more > elegant way to resolve them, say to Name, other than an additional fetch? I > think I am looking for something like an SQL view. > > > > I am aware that the ability to insert blobs was removed. I assume blobs > were being used to store images, but didn't find a discussion about its > replacement. Now I wonder what is the current best practice for storing > such ancilary parts. Is it this: encode the binary as text chars and wrap > in xml as cdata? Any restriction on the encoding? And finally is the i/o > transformation a good job for XMLObject? > > > > Thanks > > > > Don > > > >
