Re: [INTERFACES] Problems with postgres V6.5.3 large objects

Douglas Thomson <dougt(at)mugc(dot)cc(dot)monash(dot)edu(dot)au> writes:
>> Most of the developers have not wanted to put much effort into large
>> objects, since where we really want to go is to eliminate tuple size
>> restrictions; once that happens large objects will be much less
>> necessary.

> I am curious about the planned interface once tuple size restrictions
> are eliminated. I am using large objects, and want to make my
> application port as painlessly as possible.

This hasn't been thought about much, AFAIK. I agree that with large
fields in tuples, it'd be nice to have operations that read or write
portions of fields, and also ways to read/write binary data without any
encoding. But I'm not real sure what the API should look like. Are
there precedents in other DBMSes?

regards, tom lane