Re: BLOBs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: BLOBs
Date
Msg-id 200106110315.f5B3FgT24983@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: BLOBs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Thomas Swan <tswan@olemiss.edu> writes:
> > I know that BLOBs are on the TODO list, but I had an idea.
> 
> I think you just rediscovered TOAST.

We have TOAST and people want to keep large objects for performance.  I
think we could us an API that allows TOAST binary access and large
object access using the same API, and hopefully an improved one.

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