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Re: [QUESTIONS] Re: [HACKERS] text should be a blob field

Peter T Mount <psqlhack@maidast.demon.co.uk>

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From: Peter T Mount <psqlhack@maidast.demon.co.uk>
To: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-03-17T07:30:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:

> Would it be possible to have a slightly different interface in the
> frontend library which hides the fact that large objects are transfered
> 8kb at a time from the backend? Then the handling of text and large
> objects/blobs starts to look more alike...

The front end doesn't show the 8k limit... the storage manager handles
splitting up the large object into 8k chunks - it may be that the examples
show this because we know about it ourselves ;-)

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