Nope, not in the slightest for MySQL/PostgreSQL. MongoDB's GridFS is 
much more acceptable, but still has a fair old pile of caveats.

Cheers,
James Harrison

On 30 April 2012 15:56:13, Fred Gleason wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2012, at 09:59 36, Wayne Merricks wrote:
>
>> I assume the situation has improved but storing big files in binary
>> blobs within the DB used to be an absolute nightmare I guess around 10
>> years or more ago.  The only guarantee you had with that method was that
>> one day it will die and it will die horribly.
>
> I actually did look into doing this in the early days of RD.  I don't imagine 
> things have gotten much better since...
>
> Cheers!
>
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