Re: types used for JDBC BLOB and CLOB?

'k, I believe what the client is wanting to know is what the storage type
would be on the backend, that the would BLOB/CLOB map to ... bytea?

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Barry Lind wrote:

> Marc,
>
> If you are specifically talking about the JDBC types BLOB and CLOB those
> classes use the server LargeObject interface.  If you are speaking
> generically about support for large objects then the jdbc driver
> supports the bytea datatype for the get/setBinaryStream() methods.  So
> the answer is "it depends", on how you use the driver.  The specifics
> for supporting binary objects are documented in a section on this topic
> in the postgresql jdbc driver documentation chapter.
>
> Thanks,
> --Barry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@postgresql.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:44 AM
> To: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: [JDBC] types used for JDBC BLOB and CLOB?
>
>
> Just been asked this, and I'm not sure of the answer ... based on
> reading the docs on bytea, I'm assuming that it is such, but can someone
> please confirm?
>
> Thanks ...
>
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