Re: security checks for largeobjects? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From KaiGai Kohei
Subject Re: security checks for largeobjects?
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Msg-id 4A403233.4090700@ak.jp.nec.com
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In response to Re: security checks for largeobjects?  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: security checks for largeobjects?  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:31:45AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:18:51PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>> MED is management of external data, whereas the large objects are
>>>> internal, no?
>>> It depends on your definition.  The lo interface is pretty much to
>>> objects on the file system directly.
>> LO's are transaction-controlled, and they're not (readily)
>> accessible from outside the database.  Seems rather completely
>> different from regular filesystem files.
> 
> Not according to SQL/MED.
> 
>> (In any case, there wasn't anything I liked about SQL/MED's ideas
>> about external files, so I'm not in favor of modeling LO management
>> after that.)
> 
> Good point ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> David.

I would like to develop the feature independent from SQL/MED.

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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>


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