Kynn Jones wrote:
> That's a fair question. The program in question already gets from the
> relational database most of the external data it needs. The only
> exception to this is these large amorphous blobs, as you describe
> them. My only reason for wanting to put the blobs in the DB as well
> is to consolidate all the external data sources for the program.
well, look at the LO (large object) facility of postgres. this is
available to apps that call libpq directly, I have no idea if any of the
generic 'portable' APIs would have any such hooks.