Re: BLOB handling compatibility with PostgreSQL > 7.4 - Mailing list pgsql-odbc

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: BLOB handling compatibility with PostgreSQL > 7.4
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Msg-id 200512081911.30002.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: BLOB handling compatibility with PostgreSQL > 7.4  (Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@continuent.com>)
Responses Re: BLOB handling compatibility with PostgreSQL > 7.4
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Marc Herbert wrote:
> We are developping a middleware and are not free to choose our data
> types.

I was thinking the ODBC driver should provide the appropriate mapping.

> As far as i know, the implementation of bytea and large objects in
> the database are totally different and I suspect there are good
> reasons to use either one of them, depending on the actual data and
> application involved.

There is no real reason to use large objects for anything instead of
bytea.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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