Re: large objects

"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
> Now, I did a little bit of testing and when doing a \lo_export <oid>
> <filename> in psql connected via localhost a SIGPIPE is generated in
> write() in libc and psql quit, without printing any message to the
> terminal.  Perhaps interestingly
> the file that gets written is always 65536 bytes long.

Hm.  Are you using an SSL connection?  There are some known bugs in the
SSL support in 7.3.1.  It's supposed to be fixed in 7.3.3, though I've
not tried it myself.
        regards, tom lane