Re: standard LOB support

Hi,

I found my understanding was incorrect.

> > > Is there any plan to support BLOB and CLOB in future releases?
> > >
> > Looking at the spec, and postgresql's implementation, I can't
> > see much reason you couldn't just use a domain to declare that
> > a bytea is a blob and varchar is a clob.
>
> That sounds a good idea!
> My application accesses databases via JDBC and PostgreSQL
> JDBC driver can handle 'bytea' as BLOB. I'm not sure if
> 'text' is compatible with CLOB, but I guess it'll also work well.

It seems like PG JDBC driver CANNOT handle 'bytea' as BLOB nor 'text' as CLOB.
getBlob()/setBlob()/getClob()/setClob() can work with only Large Objects (at least with
postgresql-8.1-405.jdbc3.jar).

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Bad Integer Z\273\330x\336\335\226\243
at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.toInt(AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.java:862)
at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.getInt(AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.java:287)
at org.postgresql.jdbc3.Jdbc3ResultSet.getBlob(Jdbc3ResultSet.java:42)
at PgTest.main(PgTest.java:33)

The same exception occurs when using getClob() against a text column.

Using Large Objects may solve my issue but I have to note that a large object is not automatically
deleted when the record referring to it is deleted.

Thanks,

ebi