> I don't know what exactly they are, but I suspect that they are just > files (segments?) in Oracle's "file system" (tablespaces/datafiles). > So pretty much what we recommend. Maybe so, but if those large segments are presented "seamlessly" in the form of a table integrated with PGs access/security infrastructure that would be really helpful for some scenarios. A view-on-top-of-file_fdw kind of thing ? LO seems to nearly be there by now, or am I misunderstanding ? Karsten
