Re: image storing

Yeah, that is what I was thinking... except I would like to keep the
existing Access front end... And the front end displays the pathnames as a
"hyperlink" data type.  I figure I'll have to change that to a string...
just not sure how to keep it so they can just "click" on it and display the
file.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
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From: <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>
To: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
Cc: "PGSQL General" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] image storing


> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Adam Lang wrote:
>
> > Has anyone setup a postgres server that stores the location of images
(or
> > any file) and is accessed by a windows based client?  In particular
postgres
> > running on a non-windows OS.
>
> Yes, but the access was via a web browser interface.  I just stored the
> pathnames in the database.  I had postgres running on a Linux box, and the
> images themseleves were on a RAID served through Novell, then converted
> into PDF images and stored on another RAID served through Linux.  If you
> set up Samba, you could still get to the images even if they were on a
> Linux box, but the web browse interface (using Perl as the development
> langauge) was by far the easier to use for building an application.
>
> Brett W. McCoy
>
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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