Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as "rational extension" is concerned, I think I can relate. > As a developer of imaging systems that store multiple-millions of > scanned pieces of paper online for customers, I can promise you > the file system is quite efficient at storing files (and that is > what the OP asked for in the original post) and way better than > storing in Oracle blobs. Can you store them in the database, > absolutely. Is it efficient and manageable. It has been our > experience that it is not. Ever tried to upgrade Oracle 9 to > Oracle 10 with a Tb of blobs?
I keep hearing complaints about Oracle's blob handling and I don't doubt they're true, but that sounds like an Oracle problem. I haven't had any problems using blobs in MySQL though I've been a fairly lightweight user. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
