On Mon, 12 May 2008 07:40:44 +0200, Chris Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Aaron Boodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Maciej Stachowiak
> Open question: can a File be stored in a SQL database? If
> so, does the database store the data or a reference (such as a path
or Mac
> OS X Alias)?
There definitely needs to be a way to store Files locally. I don't
have a strong opinion as to whether this should be in the database, or
in DOMStorage, or in something new just for files.
Which seems to me to bring us back to the fileIO idea. In the meantime,
Arve (who is one of the people who did a lot of the thinking behind it)
has been thinking about useful ways that it can be sliced and diced,
making some functionalities more readily available to general
applications, although I am not sure where his thoughts are at the moment.
A reference has the problem that the underlying file could be modified
by an external program. I think once you save data into the SQL
database, you should be able to count on it staying constant, and
valid.
Well, that depends on whether you are saving a copy(-on-write) or a
reference. There are cases where it is actually useful to be able to
operate on the file beside what the application does in the database,
despite the increased complexity this brings... So maybe it should be
possible to store both, and at least to consciously seperate the two as
ideas in any proposal. They have (IMHO) slightly different use cases.
Cheers
Chaals
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