It's a long story, but the short answer is that I really *do* need to store files into a database. It makes them more portable and accessible.

It's unlikely that we'll approach a file that's 2G -- I have tried various files up to a 12M example that we have, and they all worked the way I expected, except for the side effect of adding single quotes around the entire files' contents when I extract the file back out of the database.

The only time we'll need to access the file is when we copy it back out to the file system for processing -- taking just the file name isn't going to work for us because that file may no longer be available when we want to do our processing.

--t. alex
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In reply to Re: Re: Anyone using SPOPS to store BLOBs? by talexb
in thread Anyone using SPOPS to store BLOBs? by talexb

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