Re: Status of server side Large Object support? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Am Sonntag, 28. November 2004 10:22 schrieb Thomas Hallgren:
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>>I'm in the phase of implementing CLOB's and BLOB's in PL/Java. I found
>>the inv_api.c and will use that as the base for my implementation.
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>The "inv_api" large objects are deprecated.  CLOBs and BLOBs should be based 
>on text and bytea, respectively.
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Hmm, ok. But there's no way to stream them in and out from disk. From 
what I can see, you have to bring all of it into memory. Not so ideal 
perhaps if you want to provide streaming media for thousands of users.

Hopefully I'm missing something.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren