Re: [PROTOCOL TODO] Permit streaming of unknown-length lob/clob (bytea,text,etc)

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:55:22PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Currently the client must know the size of a large lob/clob field, like
> a 'bytea' or 'text' field, in order to send it to the server. This can
> force the client to buffer all the data before sending it to the server.

Yes, this is not good.

> It would be helpful if the v4 protocol permitted the client to specify
> the field length as unknown / TBD, then stream data until an end marker
> is read.

What's wrong with specifying its length in advance instead?  Are you
thinking of a one or more use cases where it's both large and unknown?

Cheers,
David.
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