Re: [GENERAL] Large objects

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Kurt Seel wrote:

> I am having trouble with writing to large objects.

> I am not using lseek, as I have heard it is broken.

It shouldn't be broken. When I implemented them for JDBC, I used lseek to
get the object's size. It's worked fine (and that was just before 6.3 was
released).

> I simply read the whole thing into a buffer, edit it, and (attempt to)
> write it back out.

Should work. I assume (as you say you are not using lseek) that you are
closing the object, then reopening it before writing?

> I am doing this from TCL.

I don't know how TCL does this, but do you get any error messages?

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