| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: tuptoaster.c must *not* use SnapshotAny |
| Date: | 2002-01-18 05:12:23 |
| Message-ID: | 200201180512.g0I5CNt16482@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Agreed. I think that was the reason we kept TOAST and large objects,
> > because large objects were designed for random read-write. If we can
> > get large objects to auto-delete, probably with pg_depend, we can then
> > use them seamlessly with BLOB I/O routines.
>
> Oops I seem to have missed the discussion about excluding
> bytea from the candidate from BLOB. Yes now we seem to have
> a good reason to exclude existent type from the candidate
> of BLOB.
Well, we had the discussion when Jan was adding TOAST, and Jan was
saying we still need large objects for I/O purposes and for very large
items.
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