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From: joseash@bush.tamu.edu (Alfredo Sanchez)
Subject: prob defining type
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hello,
i'm exploring the large object facilities
provided by postgres-v3r0, starting with 
the examples in the reference manual. i 
have a problem though when i try to define 
a type with variable length, since -1 is not
allowed as internallength:

% monitor hb1
Welcome to the C POSTGRES terminal monitor

Go 
*  define type humongous
(input = lo_filein, output=lo_fileout, internallength = -1) \g

Query sent to backend is "define type humongous (input = lo_filein, output=lo_fileout, internallength = -1) "
WARN:Jan  8 14:01:28:Define: non-positive lengths disallowed


was this supposed to work?

thanx in advance,

J Alfredo Sanchez H
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Hypertext Research Lab
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University