On Friday, January 11, 2013 7:47:18 AM UTC+1, Srinivas Reddy T wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Mike <mike...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote: > >> My users will upload text documents ranging from hundreds to thousands of >> words. > > What kind of documents? pdf? word docs? excel? > > >> At the moment I store the text in a TextField. Is this going to cause a >> performance problem in the future or would it be better to store the text >> on the file system and put a file path in the data model? >> > > If you are uploading to a folder and storing the path in db, then when > somebody moves the folder, then you need to update the all the > corresponding paths in the database.When somebody deletes the folder, then > everything will be gone.You need to take care of handling duplicate names > too. > > Not a problem in this case because users will upload word, PDF and other docs, but I will extract the text content and discard the original file.
Users will only see one document at a time so I'll follow Tim Chase's advise and assume its not an issue unless it becomes one in the future. Thanks everyone for the replies. I have to say I like this mailing list a lot. It's a lot easier to ask questions here than on stack overflow. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/-sXoQh4f7WcJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
