Re: lots of large objects and toast

From: Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: lots of large objects and toast
Date: 2000-05-30 03:34:27
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20000530113427.0085dc00@pop.mecomb.po.my
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At 11:22 PM 29-05-2000 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com> writes:
>> Is there a pipe method where I can continuously print to/read from?
>
>Not at the moment, but that's obviously going to be a necessary feature
>if we want to make the existing flavor of large objects obsolete. There
>have been some preliminary discussions about it --- AFAIR no one's laid
>out a complete proposal yet.

Will such a "TOAST" and pg_dump interoperate? That would be nice to have.
But if that's not possible then maybe new dump and load tools will be
needed which cover everything. If not there'll be a new line on the FAQ - I
dumped XXX and reloaded but it's not there.

How do the other databases do BLOBS? Which ones do it well :).

Have a nice day!
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