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To: "Perrin Harkins" <perrin@elem.com> From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: Galleries/ModPerl/Images Date: 10 Oct 2001 07:14:42 -0700 >>>>> "Perrin" == Perrin Harkins <perrin@elem.com> writes: Perrin> 3) Most databases don't make dealing with BLOBs as simple as MySQL (ahem) *and* modern PostgreSQL Perrin> does, so your code becomes rather hard to port. Modern PostgreSQL has column type "bytea", with encode/decode escaping handled entirely by DBD::Pg. But agreed, it's slower to use an SQL interface to store images. The filesystem makes a darn fine database, as long as you can get the resources into reasonable pathnames. ===