Re: BLOBs and a virtual file system - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BLOBs and a virtual file system
Date
Msg-id 2950.1088005737@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to BLOBs and a virtual file system  (Peter Martini <PeterM@processflo.com>)
Responses Re: BLOBs and a virtual file system  (Peter Martini <peterm@processflo.com>)
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Peter Martini <PeterM@processflo.com> writes:
> Lately I've been planning work on a patch to postgres and linux on my
> system to allow access to BLOBs as a virtual filesystem, so I can see
> any file I put in there even through network shares while avoiding
> duplication / broken link issues.  Does this sound like something worth
> doing / is there a better way to safely reference files from both inside
> and outside postgres?

How would you do that without breaking transactional integrity for
blobs?  There'd be no way to deal with multiple row versions in such
a representation.
        regards, tom lane


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