Re: BLOBs etc

Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Kris Jurka wrote:
>
>> That would work, but it's not going to happen.  Setting up and using a
>> large object is completely different than just stashing data in a bytea
>> field.  Convincing the server to do simple conversions is difficult
>> enough, getting it to do something of this magnitude is out of the
>> question.
>>
> Why? After all, both types represent a sequence of bytes so it's not
> really doing a conversion. It's just allowing multiple ways of accessing
> it.

The "different ways" involve different transaction semantics. You can't
currently deal with LOBs when autocommit is on. How would you deal with
that?

-O