On 4/20/06, Dennis Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jay Sprenkle wrote: > > Just out of curiosity why is this data in the database? > > I've seen very few applications where the blob is indexed or operated upon > > by the database and it's always a pain to deal with it. We always just > > left binary data in the file system and stored references to it in the > > database. > > > > > For us, we use the encryption module, and our blobs must be encrypted. > I did not want to mess with encrypting the blobs myself and the > associated key management. > > I also don't want to have to deal with the blob and data pointing to it > to be out of sync. The atomicity of storing the blob and its meta data > is very nice.
having everything in one file and encrypted might be pretty convenient!
