Yes, that is a problem in general.
I guess we need to improve the dump/restore utilities.
And certainly, deleteing a row with a LO in it should
automatically delete the LO.
-----Original Message-----
From: Herouth Maoz <herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il>
To: John Huttley <john@mwk.co.nz>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>
Date: Monday, 2 August 1999 01:26
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Large Object questions...
>IMO, if you need a specialized backup script, plus a non-standard interface
>for writing into them and reading from them, and they are not deleted when
>you drop the row referring to them, then you may as well use files, and
>store only the path in Postgres for easy lookup.
>
>Herouth
>