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Re: BLOB support

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Radosław Smogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-03T14:44:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Radosaw 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.)

You wouldn't want to push such values around as whole values anyway.
Possibly what would work here is a variant form of TOAST pointer for
which we'd simply throw error if you tried to fetch the entire value
at once.

			regards, tom lane