Re: BinaryField in database

2006-08-07 Thread Jason F. McBrayer
"Todd O'Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, this will be slower than having Apache serve the file directly, > but it has the huge advantage that the file is served as the result > of a view. That means you can do all kinds of interesting permission > checking, url mapping, and general

Re: BinaryField in database

2006-08-05 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 22:07 -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > On Aug 5, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > >> Yes, this will be slower than having Apache serve the file directly, > >> but it has the huge advantage that the file is served as the result > >> of a view. That means you can do

Re: BinaryField in database

2006-08-05 Thread Todd O'Bryan
On Aug 5, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: >> Yes, this will be slower than having Apache serve the file directly, >> but it has the huge advantage that the file is served as the result >> of a view. That means you can do all kinds of interesting permission >> checking, url mapping, an

Re: BinaryField in database

2006-08-05 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 15:54 -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > It seems that requests for some way to store binary data in the > database is a perennial request. I've seen comments (I think Adrian > said it "opens a can of mutated worms."), but never a real > discussion of what the problems would

BinaryField in database

2006-08-05 Thread Todd O'Bryan
It seems that requests for some way to store binary data in the database is a perennial request. I've seen comments (I think Adrian said it "opens a can of mutated worms."), but never a real discussion of what the problems would be. There's a recent ticket, #2417, that adds support for "sm