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Re: How PostgreSQL handles Binary Large Objects (LOB/BLOB): types BYTEA, OID/pg_largeobjects and DATALINK

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Stefan Keller <sfkeller@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> The Wiki page about ORACLE and BLOBs [2] seems to me little bit
> outdated. It says "Binary large object support in Postgres is very
> poor and unsuitable for use in a 24/7 environment, because you can't
> dump them with pg_dump."

That whole page is largely obsolete, I think, but that particular
claim hasn't been true since 8.1 or so.

> There's the new data type DATALINK [5].

AFAICT that page is a wish-list.  It certainly doesn't describe any
committed code, and if there's work in progress for that, I don't
know about it.

			regards, tom lane

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