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Re: BLOB support

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Radosław Smogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-05T20:16:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Yes.  I think the appropriate problem statement is "provide streaming
> access to large field values, as an alternative to just fetching/storing
> the entire value at once".  I see no good reason to import the entire
> messy notion of LOBS/CLOBS.  (The fact that other databases have done it
> is not a good reason.)

Spent some time in the archive to confirm a certain “déjà vu”
impression.  Couldn't find it.  Had to manually search in closed commit
fests… but here we are, I think:

  https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=70
  http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/17891.1246301879@sss.pgh.pa.us
  http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4A4BF87E.7010107@ak.jp.nec.com

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support