Re: tuptoaster.c must *not* use SnapshotAny

From: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
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 05:45:47
Message-ID: 3C47B68B.192A86CF@tpf.co.jp
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > 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.

Though I've often seen the reference to bytea BLOB
I remember no clear negation. Don't we have to negate
it clearly from the first ?

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

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