> I have tried to use the lo interface and it appears to
> work ok (although there is a fix required for solaris).
> There is also a memory leak in the back end so several
> thousand large objects will probably cause the backend
> to fail .
Ouch.
Well perhaps if I tell you PG hackers what I want to do, if you could
tell me the best way to do it.
I want to have a comment database storying ascii text comments. These
could be over 8000 bytes, and my understanding is that conventional PG
rows can't be bigger than 8000 bytes. On the other hand most of them
will probably be much smaller than 8000 bytes. I will certainly have
more than "several thousand" of them.
Is large objects the right way to go here? What are the disk usage /
speed tradeoffs of using large objects here, perhaps compared to
straight UNIX files? The main reasons I don't use the file system is
that I might run out of inodes, and also it's probably not that fast or
efficient.