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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Large Objects
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0109151631080.680-100000@peter.localdomain
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Chapter 2, Programmer's Guide says:

| In Postgres, data values are stored in tuples and individual tuples
| cannot span data pages. Since the size of a data page is 8192 bytes, the
| upper limit on the size of a data value is relatively low. To support the
| storage of larger atomic values, Postgres provides a large object
| interface.

This is relatively untrue.  We need to come up with a better reason for
why the large object interface exists, if only because the above *used* to
be true.

Any ideas?

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter


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