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Re: BLOBs

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Thomas Swan <tswan@olemiss.edu>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-11T03:15:42Z
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> Thomas Swan <tswan@olemiss.edu> writes:
> > I know that BLOBs are on the TODO list, but I had an idea.
> 
> I think you just rediscovered TOAST.

We have TOAST and people want to keep large objects for performance.  I
think we could us an API that allows TOAST binary access and large
object access using the same API, and hopefully an improved one.

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