On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:50:37AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote: >> I guess most people do not store Blobs in PostgresSQL. - BYTEA puts practical limits on size - LO storage happens inside the system (!) table Nowadays, there are Foreign Data Wrappers which might encapsulate files as if they lived inside the database. Also, a combination of COPY TO FORMAT binary pg_read_binary_file() and suitable plpgsql security definer functions might provide for a Poor Man's binary file integrated external storage. Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B