[Typo3] Why is the imagefield a blob?

[Ries van Twisk]

Mathias Schreiber [wmdb] wrote:

>Marcel Douwstra wrote:
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>>Is there perhaps aan option to store the entire image into the database 
>>instead of just the link? Otherwise we don't really understand why to 
>>use the BLOB type for storting something like "image.jpg".
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>  what if you store references to 400 images?
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Does a text type not handle that?

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