Re: proposal: lob conversion functionality

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:35:05PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2013/10/24 Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>
> > On 22.10.2013 13:55, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >> 2013/10/21 Noah Misch<noah@leadboat.com>
> >>> If you're prepared to change the function names and add the
> >>> subset-oriented
> >>> functions, I would appreciate that.
> >>>
> >>>  here is patch
> >>
> >
> > lobj.sgml still refer to the old names.

> fixed documentation

Thanks.  I made these noteworthy changes:

1. Fix lo_get(oid) on a LO larger than INT_MAX bytes: raise an error rather
than performing a modulo operation on the size.

2. Remove the undocumented ability to pass a negative length to request all
bytes up to the end of the LO.  substr() also rejects negative lengths.  Note
that one can get the same effect by passing any length >MaxAllocSize.

3. Documentation reshuffling.  I placed all the documentation for these
functions in the large objects chapter, and I emphasized the new functions
over the prospect of calling the older functions (whose primary role is to
support client interfaces) from SQL.

If this still looks reasonable, I will commit it.

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Noah Misch
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