"Marco Bizzarri" <marco.bizzarri@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I would like to study the protocol for large object operations > (lo_read, lo_write,...) between the front-end and back-end. > I've found this > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/protocol.html, but it looks > like it has no message specific for large object... libpq does it through Function Call messages that invoke lo_open and so on. Look into src/interfaces/libpq/fe-lobj.c. regards, tom lane