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! > > > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | > | | Paravel Systems | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Some people call them "cars" or "trucks"; I call them "dimensional | > | transmogrifiers" because they change three-dimensional cats into | > | two-dimensional ones. | > | -- F. Frederick Skitty | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
