Larry Bates wrote: > As far as "rational extension" is concerned, I think I can relate. > As a developer of imaging systems that store multiple-millions of > scanned pieces of paper online for customers, I can promise you > the file system is quite efficient at storing files (and that is > what the OP asked for in the original post) and way better than > storing in Oracle blobs. Can you store them in the database, > absolutely. Is it efficient and manageable. It has been our > experience that it is not. Ever tried to upgrade Oracle 9 to > Oracle 10 with a Tb of blobs?
Can't be any harder than switching between incompatible filesystems, unless you assume it should "just work...". --Blair -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
