Re: Auto-delete large objects when referencing row is deleted

Hi

> I assume you mean $subject and not what you wrote here.

Yes. Sorry it's my mistake.

>> I examined contrib/lo which offers this functionality.
>
> Yes.  I wonder why the TODO item is there at all, when contrib/lo
> already solves it in a perfectly reasonable way.

As a user of database, I think contrib/lo is not the best way.
Because it's not a part of core PostgreSQL, users may forget to use them.
Or it is a little messy to use.
So I think we need to implement *Auto* delete functionality in PostgreSQL core.

Cheers.

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Taro Minowa(Higepon)

Cybozu Labs, Inc.

http://www.monaos.org/
http://code.google.com/p/mosh-scheme/

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> higepon <higepon@gmail.com> writes:
>> I found a TODO item "pg_dump Add dumping of comments on index columns"
>> for large objects.
>> and want to write a patch for it.
>
> I assume you mean $subject and not what you wrote here.
>
>> I examined contrib/lo which offers this functionality.
>
> Yes.  I wonder why the TODO item is there at all, when contrib/lo
> already solves it in a perfectly reasonable way.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>