[GENERAL] using Postgres to store many small files

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Hixson
I am currently working on a Java web application. We are making use of the JDBC driver for Postgres 7.4.1. Part of our application allows the administrators to manage a large number of small images, most of them not exceeding 5KB. There is about a gigabyte of these small files. We're curren

Re: [GENERAL] using Postgres to store many small files

2004-03-04 Thread Richard Huxton
On Thursday 04 March 2004 01:03, Matthew Hixson wrote: [snip] >I recently discovered the Hibernate project and was pleasantly > surprised how simple it was to store an image in Postgres as a bytea > using Hibernate's BLOB support. I'm wondering if Postgres would have > any problem handling all

[GENERAL] using Postgres to store many small files

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Hixson
I am currently working on a Java web application in which we are making use of the JDBC driver for Postgres 7.4.1. Part of our application allows the administrators to manage a large number of small images, most of them not exceeding 5KB. There is about a gigabyte of these small files. We're