Re: Request for API pointers
Chuck Hagenbuch <[email protected]>
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Quoting "Heath S. Hendrickson" <[email protected]>: > That's fine by me... I just was looking for a way to store an arbitrary > amount of data for each image in as efficient a storage manner as > possible. Does anyone have any objections to just storing it as a > single attribute (image_exif_data) as a delimited string? Yes. Not searchable. Very innefficient database-wise (just a big-ass text field - ick). And many, many more. > If I went the route of using fixed attributre names, I'd have to > hard-code all the possible EXIF fields into the code, making a little > more work to maintain. If there is no database storage benefit to using > delimited values (and there are drawbacks), just say so and I'll go down > the multi-attribute route. No, just store whichever attributes there are. Don't worry about hardcoding everything. -chuck -- "Regard my poor demoralized mule!" - Juan Valdez -- ansel mailing list - Join the hunt: http://horde.org/bounties/#ansel Frequently Asked Questions: http://horde.org/faq/ To unsubscribe, mail: [email protected]