Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Nov 13 13:06:04 EST 2013


Hi,

Patrick <patrick at setsuid.net> writes:

> Derek,
>
> It would throw an error about file-not-found. If folks are in a shared
> DB situation, an NFS or CIFS shared drive would work. (Where the path
> would be the same on all systems.)
>
> Alternatively, use of the URL location rather than file location might
> be preferable in a larger-scale situation. (e.g. via https to a shared
> folder.)
>
> Patrick
>
>> Interesting question for you -- what happens if you're using MySQL/PG
>> and the URI is a file:// URL but the file doesn't exist on a secondary
>> system?

That is what I expected your answer would be; I'm trying to think
whether that's an "acceptable" user experience or if they would expect
the image to be "copied" some place.

-derek

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