| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Eric Schwarzenbach <subscriber(at)blackbrook(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PDF files: to store in database or not |
| Date: | 2016-12-06 19:40:59 |
| Message-ID: | 40bd3965-0b52-c8e7-6d6a-fd44733454eb@commandprompt.com |
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On 12/06/2016 11:12 AM, Eric Schwarzenbach wrote:
> On 12/06/2016 01:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On 12/06/2016 10:30 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>
>>> My thinking is to not store these documents in the database, but to
>>> store
>>> them in subdirectories outside the database.
>>>
>>> Your thoughts?
>>
>> Due to the widely variable size of a PDF document, I would say no. I
>> would store the metadata and file location.
>>
>>
> Can you elaborate on this? Why is the variable size an issue?
Because it will use at least that size in memory to deliver the document
to you. Consider a 100MB PDF (not at all uncommon), now imagine 40
connections requesting that PDF.
Sincerely,
JD
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