Large document storage

[precipice]

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to have a way to store larger documents outside of the database -- e.g., PDFs (such as transaction attachments).

[codahale]

If you set the max_allowed_packet option for the JDBC driver, Grendel should be able to handle huge files. I'd need to change Document's handling of bodies from byte[] to InputStream, change Document's decryption code to output a stream, and have DocumentResource#show() return a StreamingOutput of the decrypted document.

That said, I think OpenPGP messages would require the entire document to be buffered while the signature is verified. No way to get it to not fit into memory.