Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

From: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)
Date: 2005-06-07 21:10:44
Message-ID: m2d5qx3maz.fsf@Douglas-McNaughts-Powerbook.local
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:

>>
>>>lo: another special data type. Is its functionality required
>>>anymore? It appears to be a workaround to some limitations of
>>>our large object interface which may no longer exist.
>
> I **think** the lo datatype is for ODBC binary access.

Yes, ISTR needing to install it to use ODBC BLOBs. I wonder if it
should be packaged with the ODBC driver instead of being in contrib/?

-Doug

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