Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Storing large data elements

[Rob Scott]

The default table type on MySQL is MyISAM, and it is
most commonly used as a static table, which is faster
than a dynamic table for most corcumstances, and
usually files arent spread all over the fs, unless you
use the dynamic system.

So to answer your question, i dont think they do.


--- Bob Dodd <address@hidden> wrote: > Most
databases I've come across have tended to deal
> with "large" data
> elements by treating them specially. In effect, they
> tend to say that
> after 256 (or some other small number) characters of
> text, and all
> binary data, are held externally to the database,
> and the db just
> references the external storage location. Depending
> on the
> sophistication of the db, you may or may not get
> versioning support for
> the external elements; usually not. I don't know
> mySQL, but I suspect
> it does the same :-?
> 
> This becomes a real pain for our style of database,
> where our content
> will typically *not* fit in the database, an all
> versioning gets pushed
> back on the programmer, and mw end up with Rob's
> "(c) hybrid" solution
> (but with added versioning support).
> 
> So, this is another "what's the mySQL approach?"
> query.
> 
> /Bob Dodd
> 
> 
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