[Zope] storing binary data in an external database

[marc lindahl]

I believe there's a Blob (I think it's called) binary data type for sql -
there was a thread a while ago in this list, someone storing large images in
sql using those.

personally, I'd use ZODB, or just the file system (LocalFS or ExtImage)

> From: "Bryan C. Andregg" <bryan.andregg@duke.edu>
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:31:42 -0500
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] storing binary data in an external database
> 
> I need to be able to store images and the like in a postgres table. It would
> seem that <dtml-sqlvar> isn't going to be what I want because there isn't a
> type definition for what I want (the data isn't exactly a string, right?).
> 
> I'm reading in the file contents using REQUEST['file'].read(), which works
> great for ascii text files, but not binaries.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
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> Bryan C. Andregg  Duke University Medical Center
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