[postmodern-devel] Large objects support

Nicolas Martyanoff khaelin at gmail.com
Sun Aug 30 15:22:22 UTC 2009


On 09-08-30 15:49, Marijn Haverbeke wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> Postmodern does not currently support this. There isn't a single
> mention of large objects in documentation of the Postgres
> Frontend/Backend protocol, so I'm not even sure how they are
> implemented by the C client lib. They seem to be a hack on top of
> tables containing binary arrays
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/lo-implementation.html).
> 
> If you have a need for this, you can have a shot at implementing it.
> Myself, I'm in 'maintenance' mode when it comes to Postgres -- I'm
> happy to fix bugs and answer questions, but I don't have time to add
> substantial new features.

No problem :)

If I need them, I'll try to add the support to postmodern (excellent library
by the way).

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Martyanoff
   http://codemore.org
   khaelin at gmail.com
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