Re: [GENERAL] lots of large objects and toast

2000-05-29 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 11:22 PM 29-05-2000 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >Lincoln Yeoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there a pipe method where I can continuously print to/read from? > >Not at the moment, but that's obviously going to be a necessary feature >if we want to make the existing flavor of large objects obsolet

Re: [GENERAL] lots of large objects and toast

2000-05-29 Thread Tom Lane
Lincoln Yeoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There's never been much enthusiasm among the core developers for large >> objects at all --- we see them as a poor substitute for allowing large >> values directly. (The "TOAST" work scheduled for 7.1 will finally >> resolve that issue, I hope.) So no

Re: [GENERAL] lots of large objects and toast

2000-05-29 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 01:36 PM 26-05-2000 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >Barry Lind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does this also mean that if you are using large objects that you really >> won't be able to store large numbers of large objects in a database? >> (If I am correct, each large object creates two files, one fo