Dear Nigel,

What if backup and restore is not of concern? (I know I can just save
the file path, but it means I have to build a client/server program
to transfer the images to a remote user, who is using a client
written with IBObjects)

Rgds,
Michael


--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Nigel Weeks" <nigel@e...>
wrote:

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

> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > 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.
> >