[ansel] Request for API pointers

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting "Heath S. Hendrickson" <heath at outerspaceconsultants.com>:

> That's fine by me... I just was looking for a way to store an arbitrary
> amount of data for each image in as efficient a storage manner as
> possible.  Does anyone have any objections to just storing it as a
> single attribute (image_exif_data) as a delimited string?

Yes. Not searchable. Very innefficient database-wise (just a big-ass 
text field
- ick). And many, many more.

> If I went the route of using fixed attributre names, I'd have to
> hard-code all the possible EXIF fields into the code, making a little
> more work to maintain.  If there is no database storage benefit to using
> delimited values (and there are drawbacks), just say so and I'll go down
> the multi-attribute route.

No, just store whichever attributes there are. Don't worry about hardcoding
everything.

-chuck

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