Re: BYTEA Fields and Memory Consumption

Hi,

(2011/04/13 21:09), Raiford@labware.com wrote:
> I have an issue where even though I break a large BYTEA object up into
> multiple pieces, the ODBC driver just rejoins the pieces in memory and
> tries to send it all out at once. I took a look at the code and sure
> enough the driver just keeps reallocating memory for each chunk of data
> that I add.

Yes you are right.

 > Can I assume Postgres has no mechanism to send this data
> across the wire in pieces? Are there any common practices for dealing
> with this?

Please try lo type instead of bytea type.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

 > As it is, in one environment I can only transfer files around
> 50MB before I start receiving out of memory errors. The same program
> running against Oracle and SQL Server works great.
>
> Jon