JDBC Blob helper class & streaming uploaded data into PG

[David Wall <d(dot)wall(at)computer(dot)org>]

Does anybody have a JDBC Blob helper class so we can use the 
setBlob()/getBlob() calls in JDBC for PG 8.3?  It would be a class that 
implements the java.sql.Blob interface.

Does anybody have any code samples of how I'd go about reading a file in 
blocks, compressing the block and then streaming that block into a Blob 
(LO)?  We are starting to process very large files uploaded in a web app 
and so it's no longer possible to keep it all in memory before it's 
stored in PG.

The pseudo-code is something like:

while ( hasMoreHttpPostData )
{
 read chunk from HTTP POST
 compress chunk
 write chunk to DB
}

If possible, we'd like to use a streaming cipher (for encryption) and 
GZIP to write the compressed data and a Blob to store to the database. 

Do these APIs support writing chunks, or must we actually loop through 
each byte (which seems painfully slow).

Thanks,
David