Edmund Mergl was kind enough to point out my error and now
that I look back at the Programmer's documentation I see it. Someone
might want to update the Pg man page to reflect this. Thanks!
Ken Causey
PremierNET, Inc.
At 01:11 PM 3/31/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Ken Causey <ken@premiernet.net> writes:
>> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
>Not doing the lo_open inside a transaction. You need begin ... end
>around any use of an open large object. (This has always been true,
>but older versions of Postgres didn't enforce it --- they'd just die
>occasionally if you broke the rule. Now, open LO handles are auto-
>closed at transaction commit, which is to say at end of statement
>if you're not inside a BEGIN block.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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