Re: Re: 7.2 items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Re: 7.2 items
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0106271825550.729-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Re: 7.2 items  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Re: 7.2 items  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> > Maybe we could make the BLOB type a wrapper around the lo_* functions?
> > The BLOB value would only store the oid.
>
> What for/why bother?  A toastable bytea column would do just as well.

There's still a 1 or 2 GB limit for data stored in that.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter



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