Re: proposal: lob conversion functionality

2013/10/26 Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:35:05PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > 2013/10/24 Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
> > > On 22.10.2013 13:55, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > >> 2013/10/21 Noah Misch<noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
> > >>> If you're prepared to change the function names and add the
> > >>> subset-oriented
> > >>> functions, I would appreciate that.
> > >>>
> > >>> here is patch
> > >>
> > >
> > > lobj.sgml still refer to the old names.
>
> > fixed documentation
>
> Thanks. I made these noteworthy changes:
>
> 1. Fix lo_get(oid) on a LO larger than INT_MAX bytes: raise an error rather
> than performing a modulo operation on the size.
>
> 2. Remove the undocumented ability to pass a negative length to request all
> bytes up to the end of the LO. substr() also rejects negative lengths.
> Note
> that one can get the same effect by passing any length >MaxAllocSize.
>
> 3. Documentation reshuffling. I placed all the documentation for these
> functions in the large objects chapter, and I emphasized the new functions
> over the prospect of calling the older functions (whose primary role is to
> support client interfaces) from SQL.
>
> If this still looks reasonable, I will commit it.
>

it is ok

Regards

Pavel

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