Re: Will Connection.createBlob be implemented any time soon?

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
<andreak(at)officenet(dot)no>wrote:

> På onsdag 29. januar 2014 kl. 06:57:25, skrev Craig Ringer <
> craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
>
> On 01/19/2014 09:14 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> > $subject
> >
> > It'd be nice to be able to do:
> >
> > val b = con.createBlob()
> > val os = b.setBinaryStream(1)
>
> The usual answer to "when will it be implemented" questions is "when
> someone steps forward, does it, and submits a patch".
>
> I haven't seen any prototypes or early attempts at this code. I suggest
> taking a look and seeing what's involved in adding it.
>
>
> I kind of hoped the answer would be ending with "... or someone willing
> to fund it" but I recognize that the driver is practically in
> maintenance-mode and nobody has time for any real development on it.
>
> Maybe it's time to re-suggest adding pgjdbc-ng to
> http://jdbc.postgresql.org so people are aware of the alternative, active
> developed, driver?
>
>

Possibly, however given the man hours that are being spent on it they would
be far better spent on this driver.

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