Re: [GENERAL] Large Object support for a DB FS

2004-11-28 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> I then proceeded with implementing my own block-oriented data table > using bytea for storage. This approach has been more flexible but has a > couple of draw-backs: > > 1. To partially update a bytea field, I have to load it first, > resulting in the overhead of an extra query. > > 2

[GENERAL] Large Object support for a DB FS

2004-11-27 Thread Bryan Bulten
Hello, I am in a undergraduate course where we are doing some free-range research. I have selected to do a database file system for Linux built on PostgreSQL, and using FUSE to expose a POSIX interface. Originally I wanted to use large objects, but was turned away after discovering that there i