Chapter 2, Programmer's Guide says:
| In Postgres, data values are stored in tuples and individual tuples
| cannot span data pages. Since the size of a data page is 8192 bytes, the
| upper limit on the size of a data value is relatively low. To support the
| storage of larger atomic values, Postgres provides a large object
| interface.
This is relatively untrue. We need to come up with a better reason for
why the large object interface exists, if only because the above *used* to
be true.
Any ideas?
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter