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Re: BLOB support

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Radosław Smogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-03T14:35:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Excerpts from Radosław Smogura's message of jue jun 02 15:26:29 -0400 2011:

> So do I understand good should We think about create bettered TOAST to support 
> larger values then 30-bit length? I like this much more,

Good :-)

(BTW while it'd be good to have longer-than-30 bit length words for
varlena, I'm not sure we have room for that.)

> but without Objects ID quering relation with lobs will require to lock
> relation for some time,

Why?  The tuples are not going away due to MVCC anyway.

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