BLOB == BINARY large object. TEXT !=BLOB. If you want to store MP3 files in MySQL how would you do it? BASE 64 Encode it?

Jeremy Portzer wrote:

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 13:53, Joseph Tate wrote:


Stored procedures (PL/pgSQL or C). Triggers. I can't remember if Mysql supports BLOBs or not, but Postgres does. Up until 4.x there wasn't any transaction support (Commit/Rollback) in Mysql.




MySQL does support BLOB equivalents (called TEXT I believe), and what I've heard is that they perform much better than Postgres. But yes, the lack of stored procedures and triggers does make MySQL much less useful. I haven't played with MySQL 4 yet, but the 3.23 versions don't even support row-level locking or transactions (unless you use a non-free(dom) software table type).

--Jeremy




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