Should I dynamically recreate a PDF, rather than store it in either the database or the filesystem?
问题 I need customers to be able to download PDFs of letters that have been sent to them. I have read the threads about database versus filesystem storage of documents or images, and it does sound like the consensus is that, for anything more than just a few images, filesystem is the way to go. What I want to know: would a reasonable alternative be to just store the letter details in the database, and recreate the PDF 'on the fly' when it is requested? Is that approach superior or inferior to