Re: BLOB support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BLOB support
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Msg-id 26724.1307112253@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BLOB support  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Radosław Smogura's message of jue jun 02 15:26:29 -0400 2011:
>> So do I understand good should We think about create bettered TOAST to support 
>> larger values then 30-bit length? I like this much more,

> Good :-)

> (BTW while it'd be good to have longer-than-30 bit length words for
> varlena, I'm not sure we have room for that.)

You wouldn't want to push such values around as whole values anyway.
Possibly what would work here is a variant form of TOAST pointer for
which we'd simply throw error if you tried to fetch the entire value
at once.
        regards, tom lane


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