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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:32:35 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000623133235.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000622204854.nicole@unixgirl.com>

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On 23-Jun-00 Nicole Harrington. wrote:
>   I dunno.. whats a "binary Blob"?

I chunk of binary data you can put in a DB.

Like an image, or an mpeg, or a sound file..

AFAIK postgres supports BLOBS.

>   Also would'nt this make the DB HUGE

Yep :)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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