Forum OpenACS Development: Re: lob hack in nspostgres and OpenACS

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Posted by Don Baccus on
Not really ... have they actually advanced?  :)

My main problem with them is that you can't use text output from pg_dump, only one of the binary options, and if pg_dump hoses something that means you can't go in and hand-edit it to the point where you can reload the dump.

That scares me ... I've never lost data due to PG_DUMP messing up but being able to hack the text output gives me a comfortable feeling.

Also the LOB API is really clunky, IIRC they're not VACUUMed etc.

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Posted by Jamie Rasmussen on
That's what I suspected.  I was just hoping we could boost performance and open up nspostgres's blob functions to non-OpenACS uses.  It looks like we'll have to wait until those items get checked off of the PostgreSQL TODO list.  Thanks!