On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:31:45AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[email protected]> 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. -- David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [email protected] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
