Re: BLOB support

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Yes.  I think the appropriate problem statement is "provide streaming
> access to large field values, as an alternative to just fetching/storing
> the entire value at once".  I see no good reason to import the entire
> messy notion of LOBS/CLOBS.  (The fact that other databases have done it
> is not a good reason.)

Spent some time in the archive to confirm a certain “déjà vu”
impression.  Couldn't find it.  Had to manually search in closed commit
fests… but here we are, I think:
 https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=70
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/17891.1246301879@sss.pgh.pa.us
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4A4BF87E.7010107@ak.jp.nec.com

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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