David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:18:51PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> MED is management of external data, whereas the large objects are internal,
>> no?
> It depends on your definition. The lo interface is pretty much to
> objects on the file system directly.
LO's are transaction-controlled, and they're not (readily) accessible
from outside the database. Seems rather completely different from
regular filesystem files.
(In any case, there wasn't anything I liked about SQL/MED's ideas about
external files, so I'm not in favor of modeling LO management after that.)
regards, tom lane