[OGo-Users] sence of var lib documents

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>> what are the reason's why this information are not stored in the database?

There is more information about document storage here -
http://www.opengroupware.org/en/devs/docs/snippets/DocumentAPI/DocStorage.html

So someone can create their own storage provide if they want.

> As Adam mentions, the primary reason is speed. Storing everything in
> one location would be nice, but the drawbacks are quite significant
> (still, though the decision was made ~10 years ago ;-).
> PS: BLOB portability is not that much a reason, AFAIK we support BLOBs
> for all database adaptors.