Re: BLOB HOWTO??

I would LOVE to see it in a minor 7.1.X release.


> Bruce,
> 
> Thanks for replying (I know you're a busy man :)
> 
> Any chance to have it backported to 7.1 or maybe in contrib???
> 
> This is a feature w all gonna lack (with GiST...)

> 
> Regards,
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > Hi Bruce,
> > > 
> > > Any idea when it's due for??
> > > I've been thining about writing a user function; But I'll get stuck with
> > > permission as a user function is running under the "postgres" or whatever
> > > user instead of the calling user.
> > > 
> > > Also, what kind of binary interface are you thinking of??
> > 
> > Lack of large object support for new TOAST columns is going to be a big
> > 7.1 complaint.  I was thinking of using the same functions as our large
> > object stuff, but remove the OID requirement.
> > 
> > 
> 
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