> Depends on whether you need "random access" to the contents. You can
> lo_seek() inside a large object and retrieve parts of the data with
> lo_read(), while 'text' and 'bytea' currently require fetching the
> whole file.
Not so unless I misunderstand. We use substr() on bytea for
chunking access to large files on OSs with inferior TCP/IP buffer
implementations. That's probably suboptimal performance-wise,
though.
Karsten
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