On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:31:45AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:18:51PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> MED is management of external data, whereas the large objects are
> >> internal, no?
>
> > It depends on your definition. The lo interface is pretty much to
> > objects on the file system directly.
>
> LO's are transaction-controlled, and they're not (readily)
> accessible from outside the database. Seems rather completely
> different from regular filesystem files.
Not according to SQL/MED.
> (In any case, there wasn't anything I liked about SQL/MED's ideas
> about external files, so I'm not in favor of modeling LO management
> after that.)
Good point ;)
Cheers,
David.
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