On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 06:23:22AM -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> >>>>> "TB" == Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> Make that IO::BLOB::Pg.
>
> TB> Or Pg::*
>
> Granted this is PostgreSQL-specific, but there is, AFAIK, nothing to
> stop someone from developing something similar for, say, Oracle.
> That, and it is IO-oriented. It seems to fit quite nicely alongside
> of IO::String, IO::Scalar, etc. Is there any reason that a generic
> IO::Blob couldn't be developed so that people have a common interface
> to these large objects stored in a database?
None at all. I'd expect that generic module to be called IO::BLOB
but to use the services of Pg::*, Oracle::*, MySQL::*, and DBI.
Tim.
