Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6979564FD29 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:45:20 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 77629-08 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:45:16 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from ds528.dedicated.turbodns.co.uk (ds528.dedicated.turbodns.co.uk [81.21.72.118]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F51364FCE3 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:45:14 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 33418 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2008 17:45:07 -0000 Received: from howardnews@selestial.com by ds528.dedicated.turbodns.co.uk by uid 1005 with qmail-scanner-1.22 ( Clear:RC:1(62.3.231.11):. Processed in 1.847347 secs); 18 Dec 2008 17:45:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.202.6.101?) (selestial-howard.cole@62.3.231.11) by ds528.dedicated.turbodns.co.uk with SMTP; 18 Dec 2008 17:45:05 -0000 Message-ID: <494A8BFA.4050705@selestial.com> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:44:26 +0000 From: Howard Cole User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Weaver , 'PgSql General' Subject: Re: Server side large object functions References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200812/685 X-Sequence-Number: 141817 George Weaver wrote: > > My objective it to read a large object into memory as opposed to > exporting it to a disk file. > > I'm using version 8.3.3, psqlODBC 8.2.2 and vb.net. > If you use Npgsql (.NET library) rather than ODBC - there are functions for reading large objects into memory. Howard Cole www.selestial.com