[ZODB-Dev] ZODB blob support.

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:30:04 +0100, Christian Theune <ct at gocept.com> wrote:
> Actually, in my experience this isn't the case. BLOBs in our (gocept)
> requirements most times represent PDFs, Excel, Word ... whatever files.
> They actually most times meet the sweet spot of this implementation at
> about 100k-20MB.
> 
> And they almost never get changed in small parts. The files, when
> exchanged, differ in large areas. Therefor this isn't that bad in our
> case. Do you think of any common case where BLOBs are changed bytewise?

No, I can't think of any use cases.  I was merely observing that for
applications with those sorts of requirements, the existing Pdata
approach probably makes more sense.

Jeremy