You can't store a filesystem path instead?
Just thinking of your backup/restore times...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Fung [mailto:ibo@...]
> Sent: Friday, 3 October 2003 12:52
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Using BLOB hurt performance significantly?
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I need to attach some tiff images to data records. Each record will
> have 2 tiff of around 200KB. If I save the tiff data in a blob field,
> it will increase the current database size of 200MB to ~6GB. Will it
> hurt database performance significantly? Suppose I am using FB1.5 on
> RedHat 9.
>
> TIA,
> Michael
>
>
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