| From: | Howie <caffeine(at)toodarkpark(dot)org> |
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| To: | John Huttley <john(at)mwk(dot)co(dot)nz> |
| Cc: | William Drury <bild(at)mail(dot)xao(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Large Object questions... |
| Date: | 1999-08-01 03:18:31 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.3.96.990730070707.10141d-100000@rabies.toodarkpark.org |
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, John Huttley wrote:
>
> You just haven't met the right application yet.
>
> in the manual there is a discussion on other methods that were previosly
> used.
>
> The PG system is good, with minor limitations in the lo* API.
>
> I'm busy writing a faxserver application where all the fax page data is
> stored as a blob.
>
> Its just so easy to use...
ahhh, found a 'lo' library in contrib/lo/ which seems to handle most of my
needs. had to put a trigger on the table that removed the associated
object when its row was removed.
the one thing i miss is the ability to determine a lo's size (
hinthintnudgenudgewinkwink ).
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Howie <caffeine(at)toodarkpark(dot)org> URL: http://www.toodarkpark.org
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
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