Re: dumping large binary file in database

[Dimitris Servis]

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> If you just need network access, put the current binary file on a file
> share somewhere.  If that won't work for you, write a dedicated row
> access server -- think of a very lightweight, flat-file database here.
> You can do it in a few hundred lines of C.  Either way, you get rid of
> the MySQL overhead, you can still access rows directly, and it's
> maximally fast.


... and BTW, I've done it already once, and just maintaining it is a waste
of time... at first is only a few hundred lines, but it grows really fast...