On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 01:44, Michal Hlavac wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on web portal. There are some ads. We have about 200 000 > ads. Every ad have own directory called ID, where is 5 subdirectories > with various sizes of 5 images. > > Filesystem is too slow. But I don't know, if I store these images into > postgres, performace will grow. Consider breaking your directories up, i.e.: /ads/(ID % 1000)/ID I use that for a system with several million images, works great. I really don't think putting them in the database will do anything positive for you. :) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly