Re: Proposal: new large object API

lo_import_with_oid added.

Note that actually committed function signature is:

Oid lo_import_with_oid(PGconn *conn, const char *filename, Oid lobjId);
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

> I have posted proposed patches to pgsql-patches.
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> Tatsuo Ishii
> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
> 
> > I would like to propose new large object client side API for 8.4.
> > 
> > Currently we have:
> > 
> >       Oid lo_import(PGconn *conn, const char *filename);
> > 
> > But we do not have an API which imports a large object specifying the
> > object id. This is inconvenient and inconsistent since we already have
> > lo_create() and lo_open() which allow to specify the large object id.
> > 
> > So I propose to add new API:
> > 
> >       int lo_import_with_oid(PGconn *conn, Oid lobjId, const char *filename);
> > 
> > Another idea is changing the signature of lo_import:
> > 
> >       Oid lo_import(PGconn *conn, Oid lobjId, const char *filename);
> > 
> > which will be cleaner but break the backward compatibility.
> > 
> > Comments are welcome.
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> > Tatsuo Ishii
> > SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
> > 
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