> > Agreed. I think that was the reason we kept TOAST and large objects,
> > because large objects were designed for random read-write. If we can
> > get large objects to auto-delete, probably with pg_depend, we can then
> > use them seamlessly with BLOB I/O routines.
>
> Oops I seem to have missed the discussion about excluding
> bytea from the candidate from BLOB. Yes now we seem to have
> a good reason to exclude existent type from the candidate
> of BLOB.
Well, we had the discussion when Jan was adding TOAST, and Jan was
saying we still need large objects for I/O purposes and for very large
items.
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