Hello all,
As you know, PostgreSQL has a large objects facility [1]. I'm curious
are there real systems which are use this feature? I'm asking because
and I'm in doubt should the Pgfe driver [2] provide the convenient API
for working with large objects or not.
Thanks!
Yea, we use LOs, because using JDBC bytea reallys doesn't stream (at least using the pgjdbc-ng driver). When retrieving bytea using JDBC it retunrs an InputStream but it's backed by an in-memory byte[]. With LOs and java.sql.Blob (which the standard pgjdbc-dirver doesn't support ,but pgjdbc-ng does) it acutally uses strams and memory is kept down to a minimum.
