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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:16:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Murray Stokely <murray@osd.bsdi.com>
To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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	Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
% 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.

  So does MySQL.  You can display a BLOB using a Perl/DBI cgi script
with about 5 lines of code.  Just print the correct Content-type
header and then the contents of the BLOB. 

	- Murray



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