Re: Migration from DB2 to PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Amit Langote
Subject Re: Migration from DB2 to PostgreSQL
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Msg-id CA+HiwqGE57AngQPSZFJdLGiAQMEUXK-g4qhgVTPbe99WzXZwmQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Migration from DB2 to PostgreSQL  (sachin kotwal <kotsachin@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:40 PM, sachin kotwal <kotsachin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>as i know each value is limited to 1GB. For larger content use module lo
>>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/lo.html
>
>
> I just want to know that like DB2 we can convert other data types into
> CLOB/BLOB using function CLOB()/BLOB().
>
> Example:
> SELECT CLOB('testdata') FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1
>
> Same way i want to convert other data types into large objects Oid in
> PostgreSQL.
>
> Proposed SQL will like:
>
> select col1::oid from hoge;
>
> ------OR------
>
> select to_oid('testdata');
>
> Can anyone tell me that how I can implement above function for conversion?
>



Sachin, check if this link is related:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/10139455/683402

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Here (from official PG docs):
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/largeobjects.html

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Amit Langote


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