Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20000331133906.017ba9f0@premiernet.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:39:06 -0600
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Ken Causey <ken@premiernet.net>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Problem with Large Object Interface of pgsql_perl5 
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
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Edmund Mergl was kind enough to point out my error and now
that I look back at the Programmer's documentation I see it.  Someone
might want to update the Pg man page to reflect this.  Thanks!

Ken Causey
PremierNET, Inc.

At 01:11 PM 3/31/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Ken Causey <ken@premiernet.net> writes:
>> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
>Not doing the lo_open inside a transaction.  You need begin ... end
>around any use of an open large object.  (This has always been true,
>but older versions of Postgres didn't enforce it --- they'd just die
>occasionally if you broke the rule.  Now, open LO handles are auto-
>closed at transaction commit, which is to say at end of statement
>if you're not inside a BEGIN block.)
>
>			regards, tom lane
>
>