Re: Support for a binary storage field?

2007-03-26 Thread Noah Slater
Whether you think RDMSSes are for binary data is mostly by the by. IMO the patch for #2417 is sub-optimal as it: 1) Subclasses the Char field. 2) Does not provide an intelligent manipulator. The solution to this problem is to provide a form upload field with the addition of a checkbox to sign

Re: Support for a binary storage field?

2007-03-26 Thread Noah Slater
Saving binary data as printable ASCII seems extremely hack^H^H^H suboptimal to me. 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. --~--~-~-

Re: Support for a binary storage field?

2007-03-26 Thread Noah Slater
>it depends the FS you're using. To get round this problem I am using NFS. Do you have any other suggestions? Either way, I still think it would be nice to be able to store binary blobs directly via models. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message be

Re: Support for a binary storage field?

2007-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
> this would be like doing exact opposite - put the load of serving > static files onto the already busy DB server All of your arguments are based on the assumption that files would be served from the database. The only sane environment would be to store the files in the database as a reference

Tags cannot contain newlines

2007-03-29 Thread Noah Slater
Hello, Please see "Tags cannot contain newlines": http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1147 I have been instructed by mtredinnick to bring the discussion here. Can someone please justify why this wont be fixed? Thanks, Noah --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received