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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>
Cc:        "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006231510380.48230-100000@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000623133235.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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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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