This is fixed in the current 7.1 snapshot.
> Paul M. Aoki (aoki@acm.org) reports a bug with a severity of 3
> The lower the number the more severe it is.
>
> Short Description
> no way in LargeObject API to detect short read?
>
> Long Description
> org.postgresql.largeobject.LargeObject.read(byte[],int,int) returns void instead of int. there's therefore no
reliable,non-exceptional way to detect short reads.
>
> the natural way to write blocked-read loops would be to assume that read(byte[],int,int) returned the number of bytes
reador (e.g.) -1 on EOF.
>
> Sample Code
>
>
> No file was uploaded with this report
>
>
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