X-Original-To: pgsql-odbc-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4871D9DCB6C for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 05:55:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32165-10 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 05:55:15 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EE5C9DCB64 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 05:55:11 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Dec 2005 09:55:13 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-063-026-116.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [84.63.26.116] by mail.gmx.net (mp034) with SMTP; 08 Dec 2005 10:55:13 +0100 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org Subject: Re: BLOB handling compatibility with PostgreSQL > 7.4 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:55:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <438B792D.6030802@bnl.gov> <20051206192749.GA24711@soptik.pzkagis.cz> <874q5l40fp.fsf@meije.emic.fr> In-Reply-To: <874q5l40fp.fsf@meije.emic.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512081055.12263.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.12 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.116, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.236] X-Spam-Score: 1.12 X-Spam-Level: * X-Archive-Number: 200512/89 X-Sequence-Number: 6568 Marc Herbert wrote: > Ludek Finstrle writes: > > Type oid doesn't represent only large objects. > > This is IMHO the original sin. oid is overloaded as both an internal > type and something the basic user has to play with. Why aren't you using bytea? Is that not supported by the ODBC driver? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/