On 12/11/05, Teg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello John, > > I'm not just storing JPG files, I'm storing them plus MD5 hashes, > topics and other metadata. I agree, it's not as efficient as disk > storage but, being able to easily search and manage the images as well > as just keeping them in one place makes it worth the performance hit. > The hash gives me automatic duplicate detection/rejection on > insertions too.
Why not just store the hash and meta data in the database and leave the jpg in the file system? Unless you're actually using database functions to read the binary image data it seems like a lot of work for no return.
