O Dennis Sacks Ýãñáøå óôéò Jan 31, 2005 :

> Sam Adams wrote:
>
> >Anyway, I was wondering which would be a better way to store a large
> >amount of files each a few megabytes in size. There could be hundreds of
> >thousands of files altogether. If stored as BYTEAs this would put them
> >all in a single table. Would this effect performance considerablely? I
> >assume if there were thousands then it would. But if the data is stored
> >as BLOBs then aren't they store inside the database just in another
> >table? Wouldn't this also be undesirable. Would it be better to store
> >them normally on the file system and just provide the path and file name
> >in the database. Obviously this wont provide any security or backup but
> >would it make sense to do it this way with such a large amount of data?
> >
> >
> This is one of those age old debates. I've done both, and I'll tell you
> that in my experience it is less of a headache to store the files in the
> filesystem (which is what filesystems are designed for) and store the
> metadata in the database.

I think if you are doing replication or write in java,
you'll be much happier with bytea.

>
> Dennis Sacks
> dennis@illusions.com
>
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