Posted by Mary Pegg on 03/27/07 16:58

Tim Streater wrote:

> In article <_3bOh.30760$GI.9369@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>,
> Mary Pegg <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.

--
"Checking identity papers is a complete waste of time. If anyone can
be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".

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