Re: Scanning a large binary field

Kynn Jones wrote:
> That's a fair question.  The program in question already gets from the
> relational database most of the external data it needs.  The only
> exception to this is these large amorphous blobs, as you describe
> them.  My only reason for wanting to put the blobs in the DB as well
> is to consolidate all the external data sources for the program.

well, look at the LO (large object) facility of postgres.   this is
available to apps that call libpq directly, I have no idea if any of the
generic 'portable' APIs would have any such hooks.