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OID or lo

From
"Cristian Custodio"
Date:
Hi,
 
Does anybody would know say me, what is the real difference between OID and lo.
 
Cristian

Re: OID or lo

From
Andrew Sullivan
Date:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:24:49PM -0300, Cristian Custodio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody would know say me, what is the real difference between
> OID and lo.

They're different things.  "OID" stands for (roughly) Object
IDentifier.  Many objects (potentially every row) in the database
have an OID.  "lo" stands for Large Object; these types of database
objects are manipulated using the lo interface.  See the user's
guide for more.

A

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