2011/10/2 Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Dmitriy Igrishin <dmit...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hey Merlin, > > > >> The lo interface sucks but it's slightly better on resources for > >> really huge bytea and tends to be more consistently implemented in > >> database drivers. If I was doing this, I would of course be crafting > >> a carefully generated client in C, using libpqtypes, which is the gold > >> standard for sending bytea against which all others should be judged. > > > > I am sorry, but why the Large Objects interface sucks? > > hm, good question. well, it's not sql and is outside the type system. > imo, bytea is really the way to go for sending binary. also, if it > turns out that we need to add features to send large pieces of data, > it should not be specific to bytea. > But at the moment, the only way to put/get the data piecewise is to use LOBs.
> > merlin > > merlin > -- // Dmitriy.
