Storing file content in DB

Question

I am making a model in which i have a FileField. I want to store the file content in a database column, instead of file path. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but there's been some good code written since then to allow this option. Specially, see django-database-files, which will use Django's storage API to make all FileFields and ImageFields store their contents in the database. There's also a fork to cache the files locally on the filesystem, to overcome the biggest caveat of using the database, which is latency.