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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 13:36:48 -0800
From: Daniel Bruce Lynes <dlynes@shaw.ca>
Subject: Truncating lobs
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Are there any methods to truncate a lob, other than by modifying the main 
PostgreSQL source tree?  i.e. is there a fastpath method I can call to 
truncate a lob?

I noticed the JDBC3 driver includes a Lob truncation method, but it is 
unimplemented.

Thanks