Shall we install Raymonds large object patches in 6.1? Looks like he
has done some serious testing, so it may be a good idea.
>
> >>>>> "Sean" == Sean Lyndersay <lynders@hcs.harvard.edu> writes:
>
>
> Sean> On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> >
> >> > The ToDo list includes the following as an enhancement in
> >> > version 6.1:
> >> > Large objects
> >> > overwriting blocks has problems there are other
> >> > problems, too. Fix large object mapping scheme not to
> >> > stuff everything as files in a single directory
> >> >
> >> > Does this mean that large objects work now? If so, is the
> >> > libpq++ testlo.cc example supposed to work?
> >>
> >> As the maintainer of the todo list, I can say, "I don't know."
> >>
> >> The TODO list is only a list of REPORTED problems.
> >>
>
> Sean> Okay, how about this:
> Sean> -- copy start --
> Sean> CHANGES IN THE 6.1 RELEASE
>
> Sean> Bug Fixes ---------
> Sean> [snip] large object fixes(Sven)
>
> Sean> -- copy end --
>
> Sean> guess we'll wait until sven reads and comments. :)
>
> I've been pounding on large objects for the last few days. It's
> pretty stable, much more so than earlier versions. However, I've only
> tested the lo_import, lo_export SQL functions, and the lo_read,
> lo_write, and lo_create functions in libpq. They seem to work well
> now.
>
> Sean> meanwhile, i'll see if i can find the problem. For those
> Sean> interested, the test program failes when trying to read the
> Sean> large object out of the database with the following message:
> Sean> "OTICE:LockRelease: locktable lookup failed, no lock"
>
> I've seen this. I think this means either you have nested begin/end
> transactions or forgot a begin/end transaction block, but have not
> checked into it yet.
>
> Ray
>
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>
>
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Bruce Momjian
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