In <1178518598.688627.202810@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups. com> manish writes:

> What is the difference between storing a file in a directory and a
> database ? ( especially w.r.t. performance ...)

If a file is in a database, none of the normal utilities can operate on
it directly. cat, grep, awk, sed, zip etc.

You could write your own custom utility that would operate similar to
cat, say call it "dbcat". But that would add extra overhead, as you
said.

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