From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
Cc: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@continuent.com>
Subject: Re: BLOB handling compatibility with PostgreSQL > 7.4
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:11:29 +0100
Message-ID: <200512081911.30002.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871x0nr8p0.fsf@meije.emic.fr>
References: <438B792D.6030802@bnl.gov>
<200512081055.12263.peter_e@gmx.net>
<871x0nr8p0.fsf@meije.emic.fr>
Marc Herbert wrote:
> We are developping a middleware and are not free to choose our data
> types.
I was thinking the ODBC driver should provide the appropriate mapping.
> As far as i know, the implementation of bytea and large objects in
> the database are totally different and I suspect there are good
> reasons to use either one of them, depending on the actual data and
> application involved.
There is no real reason to use large objects for anything instead of
bytea.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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