On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:40:21AM -0500, David Parker wrote:
> Oh, if I changed my oid fields to bytea, slony could replicate them? 

What I understand is that Slony can use any native data type (and the
reason it can't do lo is because there's a special interface there,
which is what causes the problem).  Someone will surely correct me
if I'm wrong.

> I have to look into whether bytea would work for our app, of course - I
> haven't used it before, but having those puppies slony-replicated would
> be a huge help to me....

The big sticking point is escaping things properly so that the back
end doesn't choke.  Most interfaces have some automagic function for
this.

A


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