Re: [GENERAL] Supporting SQL/MED DATALINK

2012-01-09 Thread Damiano ALBANI
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 21:13, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: I'm not aware of any plans. What would be your use case? Well, basically what DATALINK is made for: storing files in the filesystem and only keeping the reference in the database. What I'm most interested in are the

Re: [GENERAL] Supporting SQL/MED DATALINK

2012-01-09 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 9 January 2012 09:56, Damiano ALBANI I believe DB2 is pretty much it in this area. For the record, it looks like MS SQL Server has some equivalent feature : FILESTREAM. And Oracle has BFILE. I've actually been thinking about how to implement something like this for Postgres, but the

Re: [GENERAL] Supporting SQL/MED DATALINK

2012-01-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/09/12 3:07 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: For the record, it looks like MS SQL Server has some equivalent feature : FILESTREAM. And Oracle has BFILE. aren't these things functionally similar to PG's LO (large object) ? -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz

Re: [GENERAL] Supporting SQL/MED DATALINK

2012-01-09 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 9 January 2012 12:36, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 01/09/12 3:07 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: For the record, it looks like MS SQL Server has some equivalent feature :  FILESTREAM. And Oracle has BFILE. aren't these things functionally similar to PG's LO (large object) ?

Re: [GENERAL] Supporting SQL/MED DATALINK

2012-01-09 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Jan 9, 2012, at 5:07 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: On 9 January 2012 09:56, Damiano ALBANI I believe DB2 is pretty much it in this area. For the record, it looks like MS SQL Server has some equivalent feature : FILESTREAM. And Oracle has BFILE. I've actually been thinking about how to

Re: [GENERAL] Supporting SQL/MED DATALINK

2012-01-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2012-01-06 at 15:53 +0100, Damiano ALBANI wrote: Do you plan on supporting SQL/MED features concerning DATALINKs? I've seen DATALINK mentionned on the Wiki [1] but I couldn't find it on the TODO list [2]. I'm not aware of any plans. What would be your use case? By the way, do you

[GENERAL] Supporting SQL/MED DATALINK

2012-01-06 Thread Damiano ALBANI
Hello, Do you plan on supporting SQL/MED features concerning DATALINKs? I've seen DATALINK mentionned on the Wiki [1] but I couldn't find it on the TODO list [2]. By the way, do you know any vendor that provides support for DATALINK? Except DB2, there seems to be very little visibility of this