David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:18:51PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> MED is management of external data, whereas the large objects are internal, >> no?
> It depends on your definition. The lo interface is pretty much to > objects on the file system directly. LO's are transaction-controlled, and they're not (readily) accessible from outside the database. Seems rather completely different from regular filesystem files. (In any case, there wasn't anything I liked about SQL/MED's ideas about external files, so I'm not in favor of modeling LO management after that.) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers