
I'm glad we set our sights lower.
MySQL supports a non-structured data type that can contain something like 2Gb of data. Yes: in a cell in a table. We were going to use this to store email. Unfortunately, there's no way to use it because the connection protocol has a 16Mb packet limit. That is, if you raise the client library defaults up from 1Mb!
We use files for storing message contents and put the rest into the database.
Wade.
"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"