large objects issue

Congratulations to the team on getting so far with the Win32 port.
It's looking good.  I was able to install using the simple instructions
and got some databases built.

One thing I ran into is that when I tried to run the lo.sql script
that ships with RedHat, I got the following errors.  Admittedly, I don't
fully understand the lo.sql script, but I thought this report might be
useful in some way.

$ psql -d CUST -f lo.sql
SET
SET
psql.exe:lo.sql:20: NOTICE:  type "lo" is not yet defined
DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition.
psql.exe:lo.sql:20: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/lo": No such
file or
directory
psql.exe:lo.sql:26: ERROR:  type lo does not exist
psql.exe:lo.sql:34: ERROR:  function lo_in(cstring) does not exist
psql.exe:lo.sql:40: ERROR:  type lo does not exist
psql.exe:lo.sql:49: ERROR:  type lo does not exist
psql.exe:lo.sql:50: ERROR:  source data type lo does not exist
psql.exe:lo.sql:57: NOTICE:  type "lo" is not yet defined
DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition.
psql.exe:lo.sql:57: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/lo": No such
file or
directory
psql.exe:lo.sql:58: ERROR:  target data type lo does not exist
psql.exe:lo.sql:64: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/lo": No such
file or
directory

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lo.sql follows
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--    PostgreSQL code for LargeObjects
--
--    lo.sql.in,v 1.8.2.1 2003/01/03 15:43:33 inoue Exp
--
--
--    Create the data type
--

-- used by the lo type, it takes an oid and returns an lo object

-- Adjust this setting to control where the objects get created.
SET search_path = public;

SET autocommit TO 'on';

CREATE FUNCTION lo_in(cstring)
RETURNS lo
AS '$libdir/lo'
LANGUAGE 'C' IMMUTABLE;

-- used by the lo type, it returns the oid of the object
CREATE FUNCTION lo_out(lo)
RETURNS cstring
AS '$libdir/lo'
LANGUAGE 'C' IMMUTABLE;

-- finally the type itself
CREATE TYPE lo (
    INTERNALLENGTH = 4,
    EXTERNALLENGTH = variable,
    INPUT = lo_in,
    OUTPUT = lo_out
);

-- this returns the oid associated with a lo object
CREATE FUNCTION lo_oid(lo)
RETURNS oid
AS '$libdir/lo'
LANGUAGE 'C' IMMUTABLE;

-- same function, named to allow it to be used as a type coercion, eg:
--    CREATE TABLE a (image lo);
--    SELECT image::oid FROM a;
--
CREATE FUNCTION oid(lo)
RETURNS oid
AS '$libdir/lo', 'lo_oid'
LANGUAGE 'C' IMMUTABLE;
CREATE CAST (lo as oid) WITH FUNCTION oid(lo) AS IMPLICIT;

-- this allows us to convert an oid to a managed lo object
-- ie: insert into test values (lo_import('/fullpath/file')::lo);
CREATE FUNCTION lo(oid)
RETURNS lo
AS '$libdir/lo'
LANGUAGE 'C' IMMUTABLE;
CREATE CAST (oid as lo) WITH FUNCTION lo(oid) AS IMPLICIT;

-- This is used in triggers
CREATE FUNCTION lo_manage()
RETURNS trigger
AS '$libdir/lo'
LANGUAGE 'C';1Gk

Jason Priebe
Mi-Co
http://www.mi-corporation.com/