Here is the proposed patches. If there's no objection, I will
commit(or Shall I wait for next "commit festa"?).
Note that I decide to use lo_import_with_oid, but the signature is
changed(the second and the third arguments are swapped because it
seems more natural).
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
> I would like to propose new large object client side API for 8.4.
>
> Currently we have:
>
> Oid lo_import(PGconn *conn, const char *filename);
>
> But we do not have an API which imports a large object specifying the
> object id. This is inconvenient and inconsistent since we already have
> lo_create() and lo_open() which allow to specify the large object id.
>
> So I propose to add new API:
>
> int lo_import_with_oid(PGconn *conn, Oid lobjId, const char *filename);
>
> Another idea is changing the signature of lo_import:
>
> Oid lo_import(PGconn *conn, Oid lobjId, const char *filename);
>
> which will be cleaner but break the backward compatibility.
>
> Comments are welcome.
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> Tatsuo Ishii
> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
>
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