[ale] Question: Transparent document sharing over the Internet

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Wed Jun 8 21:38:35 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 21:12 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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.  
> 
> Actually, as I understand it, Postgresql does have the ability to handle 
> BLOBs.
> 

Fine, but PostgreSQL isn't something you can just hit with a Web
browser.  Zope at least would give them a folder-tree model graphically
represented.

Jeff



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