Re: The bytea datatype and JDBC

Gunnar,

You should check the README file in the jdbc directory of the source. There
is some discussion about BLOB's in it.

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gunnar Rønning" <gunnar@polygnosis.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Cc: <pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:02 PM
Subject: [JDBC] The bytea datatype and JDBC


> I saw Tom Lane mentioning the bytea datatype as the way to do BLOBs for
> tables, but I cannot find anything on it in the documentation and
> it is not supported by the JDBC driver as far as I can see.
>
> Where can I get information about it, so I can go on with implementing
support
> for it ?
>
> Is there any performance differences between using BLOB/OID and bytea ?
>
> I cannot use the OID approach with the application in question as it is
> an JDBC app(Turbine from jakarta.apache.org) that relies on asking the
JDBC
> driver for the datatype. Doing this for an OID column does ofcourse return
> integer while you in some instances would like it to return varbinary.
>
> The Turbine people recommend this patch :
> http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/howto/postgres-howto.html
>
> I don't like this approach as it may break other usages of OID, so hence
my
> desire to use bytea to get something that works.
>
> Turbine is a quite large and nice web app framework in Java, and it would
be
> nice to see more Turbine users go from mysql to pgsql. But this issue is
> a showstopper for a lot of the people trying...
>
> regards,
>
>         Gunnar
>
> --
> Gunnar Rønning - gunnar@polygnosis.com
> Senior Consultant, Polygnosis AS, http://www.polygnosis.com/
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