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Re: Re: 7.2 items

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Thomas Swan <tswan@olemiss.edu>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-27T16:29:51Z
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Tom Lane writes:

> > Maybe we could make the BLOB type a wrapper around the lo_* functions?
> > The BLOB value would only store the oid.
>
> What for/why bother?  A toastable bytea column would do just as well.

There's still a 1 or 2 GB limit for data stored in that.

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