Re: What is the best way to storage music files in Postgresql

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Craig Ringer
<craig@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> Rich wrote:
>  > I am going to embarkon building a music library using apache,
>  > postgresql and php.  What is the best way to store the music files?
>
>  Your options are either to use a BLOB within the database or to store
>  paths to normal files in the file system in the database. I suspect
>  using normal files will make backup and management a great deal easier
>  than using in-database BLOBs, so personally I'd do it that way.
>
>  Storing the audio files in the database does make it easier to keep the
>  database and file system backups in sync, but I'm not really sure that's
>  worth the costs.
What costs are to speaking of?
>
>  I'm sure that what you're doing has been done many times before, though,
>  so even if you're not going to use one of the existing options you might
>  at least  want to have a look at how they work.
>
>
>  > Which file type should I use?
>
>  I'm not sure I understand this question. Are you asking which audio
>  compression codec and audio container file type (like "mp3", "aac", etc)
>   you should use? If so, this is really not the right place to ask that.
>
>  Do you mean which file /system/ ?
>
>  --
>  Craig Ringer
>
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