Re: use BLOBS or use pointers to files on the filesyste

From what I understand performance will be very slow if you are storing that
much in the database.
It would be better just to store the pointer.

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From: Travis Bear [mailto:ec9098(at)www2(dot)us(dot)postgresql(dot)org]
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 6:49 PM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [GENERAL] use BLOBS or use pointers to files on the filesystem?

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Hi

I'm kind of a database newbie in general, so be nice to me if this is a
bonehead question. I am building a java servlet based web application to
manage photos and images. My first thougth has been to store the images as
BLOBs in the database, but I read one user say that you're better off not
using BLOBs. Instead, he says, store your large data objects as files on
the filesystem, and just use the database to store the path to the file and
any file-related meta data.

I wasn't sure what to think of this, so I was hoping to get some other ideas
and opinions. I expect to accumulate 1-2 gigs of new data per year, max,
with average image size being 700k.

Also, if I've missed any obvious documentation on this issue please feel
free to send it my way.

Thanks!

Travis

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