Joshua D. Drake wrote:
I've just re-written our Whitebeam code to drop large-objects in
favour of BYTEA fields.
All the old problems of large objects in backups exist, but the killer
for us was that none of the current replication systems, at least that
I could find, would replicate large objects. This became a mandatory
requirements for us.
Mammoth Replicator has always replicated Large Objects. The only
"backup" issue to large objects is that you have to pass a separate flag
and use the custom or tar format to dump them.
Bytea has its own issues mostly based around memory usage.
I am not saying you should or shouldn't switch as it really depends on
your needs but the information above just isn't quite accurate.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
I should have added that my search was limited to open source/free replication
systems.
I'd have to have a *very* good reason to use large objects over BYTEA
now.
Pete
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