Re: Re: 7.2 items

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Swan <tswan(at)olemiss(dot)edu>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: 7.2 items
Date: 2001-06-27 16:29:51
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0106271825550.729-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> > Maybe we could make the BLOB type a wrapper around the lo_* functions?
> > The BLOB value would only store the oid.
>
> What for/why bother? A toastable bytea column would do just as well.

There's still a 1 or 2 GB limit for data stored in that.

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