Re: BLOBs etc

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Thomas Hallgren wrote:

> Kris
> > I'm not clear what your advocating in concrete terms.  A new pseudo type 
> > "binary data" that could be used until it needs to convert it into a 
> > concrete type?  When does this conversion have to happen?
> > 
> Couldn't this be limited to the client/server protocol? There are 4 
> cases that will fail today. If you attempt to:
> 
> 1. stream lob data from the client for storage in a bytea.
> 2. send a bytea data "by value" for storage in a LOB.
> 3. read LOB data that is passed as a bytea.
> 4. read bytea data that is really a LOB.
> 
> As you pointed out earlier, it should be possible to make the client 
> handle cases #3 and #4 so what's left for the server is to deal with #1 
> and #2. That doesn't sound like rocket science to me.
> 

Well you've summarized the problem, but you certainly haven't given any 
concrete suggestions on how this could actually be done.  I'm not sure 
this even qualifies as handwaving.

Kris Jurka