Re: PDF files: to store in database or not

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PDF files: to store in database or not
Date: 2016-12-06 19:35:41
Message-ID: a0095ad8-64f7-c590-beea-111aacd41814@hogranch.com
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On 12/6/2016 11:21 AM, David Wall wrote:
>
> The advantages of storing in the database is that a DB backup will
> have everything, instead of a DB backup and a file system backup.
> Using a BLOB, you can certainly keep track of variable length PDFs.

and one of the disadvantages of storing in the database is those db
backups become way huger if there's a lot of this file data.

--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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