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Re: Re: 7.2 items

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>

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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Thomas Swan <tswan@olemiss.edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-27T05:11:57Z
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > > Please, consider a BLOB column type without having to do lo_import,
> > > > lo_export.
> > >
> > > Yep, big needed item.
> >
> > as we have now and unlimited rowlength it seems to be more of an
> > interface issue than the actual implementation one (mod seek/read).
> >
> > Is there an ISO/ANSI SQL interface to BLOB's defined someplace ?
> 
> Yes, clearly interface.  Someone is working on code to insert/export
> binary stuff using bytea and base64 encoding.  Seems like a good idea.

Will there also be support current file-like BLOB ops like seek and 
read(n) ?

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Hannu