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 More options Mar 26 2007, 9:45 am
From: "mario__" <gonzalema...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:45:25 -0700
Local: Mon, Mar 26 2007 9:45 am
Subject: Re: Support for a binary storage field?
On 26 mar, 07:14, "Noah Slater" <nsla...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Saving binary data as printable ASCII seems extremely hack^H^H^H
> suboptimal to me.

  You can have a TextField and save data as base64 or save data as
binary. In postgres binary data is not saved inside database, a link
is saved only, and I'm not sure if these kind of data could be
replicated through slony-1 or similar.

> To make a case for binary data - how about when you want to store a
> small image for a UserProfile.

> Saving to the local file-system doesn't work when you are clustering
> your application servers.

   it depends the FS you're using.

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