Re: [HACKERS] BLOBs and a virtual file system

2004-06-23 Thread Frank Wiles
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:07:42 -0400 Peter Martini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by breaking blobs transactional integrity. > Do you mean by allowing filesystem type access, the blobs won't be > properly locked and updated during a transaction? If so, that's > exactly wha

Re: [HACKERS] BLOBs and a virtual file system

2004-06-23 Thread Peter Martini
I'm not sure what you mean by breaking blobs transactional integrity. Do you mean by allowing filesystem type access, the blobs won't be properly locked and updated during a transaction? If so, that's exactly what I'm trying to achieve - a compromise between forcing the files to be stored solely

Re: [HACKERS] BLOBs and a virtual file system

2004-06-23 Thread Dave Bauer
Peter Martini writes: Lately I've been planning work on a patch to postgres and linux on my system to allow access to BLOBs as a virtual filesystem, so I can see any file I put in there even through network shares while avoiding duplication / broken link issues. Does this sound like something wo

Re: [HACKERS] BLOBs and a virtual file system

2004-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Martini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lately I've been planning work on a patch to postgres and linux on my > system to allow access to BLOBs as a virtual filesystem, so I can see > any file I put in there even through network shares while avoiding > duplication / broken link issues. Does th

[HACKERS] BLOBs and a virtual file system

2004-06-23 Thread Peter Martini
Lately I've been planning work on a patch to postgres and linux on my system to allow access to BLOBs as a virtual filesystem, so I can see any file I put in there even through network shares while avoiding duplication / broken link issues. Does this sound like something worth doing / is there a b