I am working with a project on sourceforge http://leopard.sourceforge.net and this is one of the package management stratagies we are thinking about trying. As I said I have almost no experience with mysql so I open to any and all suggestions. Very good points being made about the size of the rows.
Thanks for the quick responses :-) Jake Walters > Can I ask why? > > Why not define a char(50) (or whatever size) with the relative or complete > path to the .tar file? Storing it in your database would create huge row > sizes. > > Joshua Thomas > Network Operations Engineer > PowerOne Media, Inc. > tel: 518-687-6143 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice > there is. > - Yogi Berra > --- > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:55 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: storing .tar files in mysql >> >> >> Hi all, >> I am new to mysql and I was wondering if someone could point >> me in the >> right direction on how to store .tar and .tar.gz (bzip2) >> files inside a >> mysql database. I have googled to try and find some help >> there but most >> of the hits come back with binary image files. I have gone >> thru the mysql >> tutorial and I can create the database and tables, but I can't seem to >> insert the .tar file properly...Any pointers would be appreicated... >> >> Thanks, >> Jake >> >> -- >> MySQL General Mailing List >> For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql >> To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
