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The postgresql docs, I posted the url didn't I?  Here it is again.

http://looking-glass.usask.ca/postgresql/docs/postgres/largeobjects.htm

And this is a quote from that page.

<QUOTE>
Originally, Postgres 4.2 supported three standard implementations of large 
objects: as files external to Postgres, as UNIX files managed by Postgres, 
and as data stored within the Postgres database. It causes considerable 
confusion among users. As a result, we only support large objects as data 
stored within the Postgres database in PostgreSQL.
</QUOTE>

So according to this, the large objects are stored in the table  But
from what I gather from the earlier large object talk, and from my
own observation, postgres uses external files.  Am I deluded?  Am I
missing something?

Gregory W Burnham
Software Engineer
Excite Labs
Faculty Of Education
Simon Fraser University
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Gregory W Burnham <gburnham@sfu.ca>
Cc: <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] More about large objects


>> Now I'm confused.  From what I'd gather from earlier today, Postgres 
>> used external files.  Are the docs that out of date?
>
>Which docs? What were you gathering, and where??
>
>                     - Tom
>