Re: Extending varlena

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:09:13PM -0400, Andrew Chernow wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> As the things stored in databases grow, we're going to start
>> needing to think about database objects that 4 bytes of size can't
>> describe.  People are already storing video in lo and bytea fields.
>> To date, the sizes of media files have never trended downward.
>
> I always find these requests puzzling.  Is it really useful to store
> the  data for a jpeg, video file or a 10GB tar ball in a database
> column?  

It is if you need transaction semantics.  Think medical records, etc.

Cheers,
David.
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