| From: | Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> |
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| To: | Thomas Hallgren <thhal(at)mailblocks(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BLOBs etc |
| Date: | 2005-01-07 21:44:59 |
| Message-ID: | 41DF02DB.9060707@opencloud.com |
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Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Kris Jurka wrote:
>
>> That would work, but it's not going to happen. Setting up and using a
>> large object is completely different than just stashing data in a bytea
>> field. Convincing the server to do simple conversions is difficult
>> enough, getting it to do something of this magnitude is out of the
>> question.
>>
> Why? After all, both types represent a sequence of bytes so it's not
> really doing a conversion. It's just allowing multiple ways of accessing
> it.
The "different ways" involve different transaction semantics. You can't
currently deal with LOBs when autocommit is on. How would you deal with
that?
-O
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