Re: BLOB support

Hello, Pavel.

You wrote:

PS> 2011/6/2 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>:
>> On ons, 2011-06-01 at 22:00 +0200, Radosław Smogura wrote:
>>> I partialy implemented following missing LOBs types. Requirement for this was
>>> to give ability to create (B/C)LOB columns and add casting functionality e.g.
>>> SET my_clob = 'My long text'.
>>>
>>> Idea is as follow:
>>> 0. Blob is two state object: 1st in memory contains just bytea, serialized
>>> contains Oid of large object.
>>> 1. Each type has additional boolean haslobs, which is set recursivly.
>>> 2. Relation has same bool haslobs (used to speed up tables without LOBs)
>>> 3. When data are inserted/updated then "special" function is called and tuple
>>> is modified in this way all LOBs are serialized to (old) LOB table and just
>>> Oid is stored.
>>> 4. When removed LOB is removed from (old) LOB table.
>>
>> Superficially, this looks like a reimplementation of TOAST.  What
>> functionality exactly do you envision that the BLOB and CLOB types would
>> need to have that would warrant treating them different from, say, bytea
>> and text?
>>

PS> a streaming for bytea could be nice. A very large bytea are limited by
PS> query size - processing long query needs too RAM,

LO (oid) solves this, doesn't it?

PS> Pavel

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