Re: Blob streamability

Marc Herbert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.java
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Robert DiFalco" <[email protected]> writes:

> This is one of the most disturbing things about the server and IMO
> really sets it apart from most other enterprise class database servers. 
>
> No matter how many concurrent sessions there are, not matter how large
> the LOB data, all LOB bytes must be completely read into memory before
> being written to the table and as you point out, read completely into
> memory when retrieving it from a table.
>
> I'm not sure why streaming these bytes to and from disk isn't just an
> obvious high-priority item for the roadmap. I hear people complaining
> about this all the time.


Maybe just because it's a huge pain to implement? BLOBs do not really
fit into the relational data model, this streaming issue being one
among other demonstrations of it.




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