Stefan Keller <sfkeller@gmail.com> writes:
> The Wiki page about ORACLE and BLOBs [2] seems to me little bit
> outdated. It says "Binary large object support in Postgres is very
> poor and unsuitable for use in a 24/7 environment, because you can't
> dump them with pg_dump."
That whole page is largely obsolete, I think, but that particular
claim hasn't been true since 8.1 or so.
> There's the new data type DATALINK [5].
AFAICT that page is a wish-list. It certainly doesn't describe any
committed code, and if there's work in progress for that, I don't
know about it.
regards, tom lane
