Re: Proposal: new large object API

I have posted proposed patches to pgsql-patches.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

> I would like to propose new large object client side API for 8.4.
> 
> Currently we have:
> 
>       Oid lo_import(PGconn *conn, const char *filename);
> 
> But we do not have an API which imports a large object specifying the
> object id. This is inconvenient and inconsistent since we already have
> lo_create() and lo_open() which allow to specify the large object id.
> 
> So I propose to add new API:
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>       int lo_import_with_oid(PGconn *conn, Oid lobjId, const char *filename);
> 
> Another idea is changing the signature of lo_import:
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>       Oid lo_import(PGconn *conn, Oid lobjId, const char *filename);
> 
> which will be cleaner but break the backward compatibility.
> 
> Comments are welcome.
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> Tatsuo Ishii
> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
> 
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