Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> 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.
Yeah. I hadn't realized until this conversation that TOAST couldn't
support partial updates of huge values. That is a definite problem for
supporting lo_read/lo_write-type operations.
regards, tom lane