Re: The Contrib Roundup (long) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Douglas McNaught
Subject Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)
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Msg-id m2d5qx3maz.fsf@Douglas-McNaughts-Powerbook.local
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In response to Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:

>> 
>>>lo: another special data type.   Is its functionality required
>>>anymore?   It appears to be a workaround to some limitations of
>>>our large object interface which may no longer exist.
>
> I **think** the lo datatype is for ODBC binary access.

Yes, ISTR needing to install it to use ODBC BLOBs.  I wonder if it
should be packaged with the ODBC driver instead of being in contrib/?

-Doug


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