Re: postgres blobs and PHP

In 7.1 the limitation will disappear.

**To the list manager:
I think we need to add a disclaimer to the newsgroup messages about this.
Just append something at the bottom of each message. :)

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin A. Marques" <martin(at)math(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
To: "Adam Haberlach" <adam(at)newsnipple(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postgres blobs and PHP

> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Adam Haberlach wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 07:30:19PM -0300, Martin A. Marques wrote:
> > > I know I bothered with this, but I just don't get it.
> > > Lets say I have a test table like this in a certain database:
> > >
> > > CREATE TABLE test (
> > > id_test SERIAL,
> > > blob_text oid
> > > );
> > >
> > > Now I want to insert a good chunk of text in the blob_text field with
PHP.
> > > PHP has some postgres functions like pg_locreate, pg_lowrite,
pg_loread, etc,
> > > but it never specifies the table and it doesn't specify the field in
the
> > > table.
> > > Now how does php know where to write the chunk of text (or the image,
or
> > > whatever)?
> > > Can someone give me a hand?
> >
> > It sticks it somewhere. It is up to you to keep track of the Oid that
> > lo_create gives you and stash it in your table so you can lo_open it
later.
>
> Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I don't see anything related with the oid
> field in the lo functions of PHP.
> I have done lots of stuffs with PHP and informix, and I think the way
> PHP manages the informix blobs is much clearer. I don't know if it's
> because of the way informix adds information to the blobs, or that the
> guy that made the module had a good idea.
> Anyway, I'm still clue-less!
>
> P.D.: If I have to add BIG chunks of text to a database TEXT field, now
> a days I would have trouble with Postgres 7.0.x because of the 8k per
> tuple limitation. Will this be the same in future 7.1 version? I mean,
> will the limitation grow higher, or will it disapear?
>
> Saludos... ;-)
>
>
>
> "And I'm happy, because you make me feel good, about me." - Melvin Udall
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