Fabián R. Breschi writes: > I wonder if using ModPerl and PostgreSQL there's any possibility to > resemble what in Oracle is called 'Intermedia', in this particular case > parsing/indexing content of PDF files inside PostgreSQL as a LOB or > alternatively as a flat OS file with metadata parsed/indexed from it > into the RDBMS.
We use Intermedia and Postres on separate projects. Oracle's PDF parsing can be emulated with pdftotext. You'll need a search engine. Frankly, I'm not totally pleased with Intermedia. It's indexer is slow, and you have to re-optimize often. This affects a bunch of stuff related to the database, e.g., redo logs, which makes db management more difficult. If I had the time, I'd probably drop it. Rob
