Re: [HACKERS] performance modality in 7.1 for large text attributes?

[Bruce Momjian]

> furthermore, are there any plans to offer a better libpq interface to INSERT?
> the things i'm doing now to quote the text, and the extra copy i'm maintaining,
> are painful.  arbitrary-sized "text" attributes are a huge boon -- we would
> never have considered using postgres for MAPS RSS (or RBL) with "large
> objects".  (kudos to all who were involved, with both WAL and TOAST!)

If you are asking for a binary interface to TOAST values, I really wish
we had that in 7.1.  It never got finished for 7.1.

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