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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