Re: [Chicken-users] DBI

[Graham Fawcett]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:47:08AM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote:
>  > Yes, input port was what I was thinking. Thanks. The input port would
>  > return the body of the LOB and return #!eof when it's consumed.
>  >
>  > The "Chicken blob or string" options are redundant, so the revised
>  > proposal is to represent a LOB with a thunk that evaluates to an input
>  > port.
>
>  Why the thunk? (why not directly the port?)

Laziness: it avoids the overhead of setting up the input port if it's
not required. You might want to iterate over a set of (id, name, blob)
records and only open the blob if the name meets some criteria that
are local to the app (i.e. can't be expressed in a WHERE clause).

Best,
Graham