Re: BlobField before .97

2007-08-14 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 16:29 -0700, Simon Greenhill wrote: > The last time we discussed this [1] I think everyone sort of concluded > that a binary field was a sensible idea as long as it's PRIMARILY for > storing small chunks of binary info, and not an easy-I-want-to-store- > binaries-in-my-databa

Re: BlobField before .97

2007-08-14 Thread Marty Alchin
I don't really have much invested in this topic, but I really think one of the other topics floating around has a decent approach to this problem. If FileField and its subclasses had a way to swap out storage mechanisms, a BLOB could be used internally to store the file data for a FileField. This

Re: BlobField before .97

2007-08-14 Thread Simon Greenhill
The last time we discussed this [1] I think everyone sort of concluded that a binary field was a sensible idea as long as it's PRIMARILY for storing small chunks of binary info, and not an easy-I-want-to-store- binaries-in-my-database type of thing. >From memory, most of the issues in that discus

Re: BlobField before .97

2007-08-14 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 7/30/07, David Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my opinion BlobField's need some kind of support inside of Django > before the coming of 0.97 release. > > They have never been officially supported, but they were at least > usable (as say a TextField) before Unicode. Now they're unusable a

Re: BlobField before .97

2007-07-30 Thread Gábor Farkas
David Cramer wrote: > In my opinion BlobField's need some kind of support inside of Django > before the coming of 0.97 release. > > They have never been officially supported, but they were at least > usable (as say a TextField) before Unicode. Now they're unusable as > you run into encoding/decod

BlobField before .97

2007-07-30 Thread David Cramer
In my opinion BlobField's need some kind of support inside of Django before the coming of 0.97 release. They have never been officially supported, but they were at least usable (as say a TextField) before Unicode. Now they're unusable as you run into encoding/decoding issues. --~--~-~--