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

Re: [GENERAL] Supporting SQL/MED DATALINK

2012-01-09 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 9 January 2012 12:36, John R Pierce 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) ? Orac

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 c

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 i

Re: [GENERAL] Supporting SQL/MED DATALINK

2012-01-09 Thread Damiano ALBANI
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 21:13, Peter Eisentraut 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 "transaction" and "

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