[ale] Question: Transparent document sharing over the Internet

[Chris Fowler]

A few years back I brought this question up about MySQL.  A BLOB
was possible but there was a better solution.  Simply store the binaries
on disk.  In the DB store the filenames.  You app can then feed the data
to the remote or do whatever it needs to do. 

If Postgres can not store binaries in the DB and you _really_ need it to
then I would suggest possibly converting to base64 and then storing that
in a large type in the DB.

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:15 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I'm not sure about PostgreSQL's ability to store arbitrary binaries -
> and you'd have to write something to interface with it if it did - but I
> know that Zope can do this sort of thing if you let your participants
> "under the hood" of the app server and let them upload arbitrary files
> as Zope objects.  
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 14:17 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Anonymous Coward wrote:
> > > Thanks to all for your suggestions.
> > > The only issue that exists with setting up a wiki ..
> > > or anything else that requires some manual human
> > > "commit/update" action .. is that  it may not occur.
> > > For example ... if my travelling colleague forgets to
> > > post the latest revisions .. we will be working and
> > > reviewing docs that are not the latest.
> > > 
> > > Hence I was hoping to be able to have this sync
> > > process occur transparently without requiring manual
> > > interaction.
> > > Some of the suggestions have given me a few ideas that
> > > I need to explore and understand better.
> > > I'll post if something works out really well.
> > 
> > Sounds to me like you need to store your documents in a database.  Say 
> > Postgresql?
> > 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale