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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/28/07 01:58
Mary Pegg wrote:
> Tim Streater wrote:
>
>> In article <_3bOh.30760$GI.9369@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>,
>> Mary Pegg <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
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>>> It'll look the same to the user whether the document is stored as a
>>> BLOB in the database or as a file.
>> But they won't have to go arsing about looking for it. I'll have a
>> button on the page that'll download it for them. NB, I got *asked* for
>> this feature by folks here.
>
> Let's try again: it'll look the same to the user whether the document
> is stored as a BLOB in the database or as a file.
>
> However an advantage to the site admin is that it'll be humanly readable,
> if it's a file (e.g. "xpdf /var/www/html/documents/thing.pdf") whereas
> if it's a blob in the DB you have to do mucho arsing about to get at it.
>
Who cares if it's "humanly readable" or not? It's not going to be read
by humans.
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