Sitting here with Dups at my kitchen table discussing this... Dups came up with an excellent analogy:
"Sometimes you want to store a steak in the refrigerator -- you know, if you're gonna eat it in short order. But most of the time, you put the steak in the freezer. Storing BLOBs in the database is like throwing the cow into the refrigerator: sure, you can probably do it with some careful maneuvering, but it's probably not going to be that useful." -j Brian Aker wrote: > Hi! > > On Nov 10, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Paul McCullagh wrote: > >> Engines call the BLOB streaming engine's "server-side" streaming API >> in order to support this functionality. Consistency between databases >> tables and the repository is maintained using reference counting calls >> in the API. > > > I am for a blob API where blob storage is offloaded from the engines. > This has always been a bit of a back burner wish for me (I am not fond > of storing large blobs in the database). As long as it fit into the > plugin API so that anyone could implement one... its sounds good to me. > > Cheers, > -Brian > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org > Seattle, Washington > http://krow.net/ <-- Me > http://tangent.org/ <-- Software > _______________________________________________________ > You can't grep a dead tree. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
