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Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 17:32:07 +0200
From: Wolfgang Hottgenroth <wn@kja-essen.de>
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To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] problems with large-objects
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Hi Thomas, hi all,

Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> 
> > did anyone of you ever saw some strange problems with large objects and
> > the postgresql 6.51?
> 
> I don't work with Large Objects, but I am pretty sure that the
> behavior was changed/fixed for v6.5 to *require* all large object
> manipulation to happen within a transaction. This was always a
> requirement, but Postgres did not enforce it and had some potentially
> bad behavior lurking as a result.

Have many thanks for that fast answer. It is new to me, that
large-object-operations requires transactions. Did I read the manual to
fast or isn't it written down there?
I will try it.


Wolfgang