From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@continuent.com>
To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BLOB handling compatibility with PostgreSQL > 7.4
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:59:23 +0100
Message-ID: <871x0nr8p0.fsf@meije.emic.fr> (raw)
References: <438B792D.6030802@bnl.gov>
<20051206192749.GA24711@soptik.pzkagis.cz>
<874q5l40fp.fsf@meije.emic.fr>
<200512081055.12263.peter_e@gmx.net>
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Marc Herbert wrote:
>> Ludek Finstrle <luf@pzkagis.cz> 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?
We are developping a middleware and are not free to choose our data
types.
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.
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Subject: Re: BLOB handling compatibility with PostgreSQL > 7.4
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