> Depends on whether you need "random access" to the contents. You can > lo_seek() inside a large object and retrieve parts of the data with > lo_read(), while 'text' and 'bytea' currently require fetching the > whole file. Not so unless I misunderstand. We use substr() on bytea for chunking access to large files on OSs with inferior TCP/IP buffer implementations. That's probably suboptimal performance-wise, though.
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