On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark, > > Thanks for your suggestion, It's really not a good idea to store one > file in multiple columns in one row. The heap space problem will still > exist. And I take your advice to store it in multiple rows, it works, > I can event store one file with 2G.
True. Unfortunately, splitting into multiple rows complicates things a lot, since handling of separate chunks breaks atomicity of updates. But for write-and-forget cases that works (start with assumed first chunk, continue until non-existing chunk encountered). -+ Tatu +-
