Thanks. Unfortunately, this is in a clustered environment.   NFS and other 
shared drive systems won't scale well.  I'd need to run a service that can 
serve/delete the local files, which is why I'm just stashing it in Postgres for 
now.  

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 2:26 AM, Roxanne Reid-Bennett <r...@tara-lu.com> wrote:
> 
> We have a system that loads a bunch of files up to be processed - we queue 
> them for processing behind the scenes.  We don't load them into Postgres 
> before processing.  We put them in a temp directory and just save the 
> location of the file to the database.  This configuration does have 
> limitations.  Post-processing can not be load balanced across servers unless 
> the temp directory is  shared.
> 
> I'm sure you'll get more DB centric answers from others on the list.
> 
> Roxanne


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