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

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