Re: 7.2 items

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Cc: Thomas Swan <tswan@olemiss.edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-26T15:36:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 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.

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