[ZODB-Dev] RelStorage and BLOBs

[Shane Hathaway]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> For some of us a the main reason for using RelStorage is to be able to 
> satisfy the 'all data must be stored in our oracle cluster' requirement 
> from enterprise customers. That means we can not use NFS mounts to store 
> blobs.

You have a point, and I know how stubborn enterprises can be.

Here's an approach that will probably work: keep blob handling 
completely separate from other database operations and open a different 
database connection for each thread.  Maintain pseudo-file-handle state 
completely outside the database.

This design could be independent of RelStorage.  We could create a 
wrapper much like the current <blobstorage> but put the blobs in the 
database instead.

Shane