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 99DAA9DD715 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:11:43 -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 46128-04 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:11:41 -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 B548A9DCBC5 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:11:39 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Dec 2005 18:11:37 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-063-026-116.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [84.63.26.116] by mail.gmx.net (mp029) with SMTP; 08 Dec 2005 19:11:37 +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 19:11:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Marc Herbert References: <438B792D.6030802@bnl.gov> <200512081055.12263.peter_e@gmx.net> <871x0nr8p0.fsf@meije.emic.fr> In-Reply-To: <871x0nr8p0.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: <200512081911.30002.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.133 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.103, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.236] X-Spam-Score: 1.133 X-Spam-Level: * X-Archive-Number: 200512/95 X-Sequence-Number: 6574 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/