Documentation → PostgreSQL 8.4

Supported Versions: Current (17) / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13

Development Versions: devel

Unsupported versions: 12 / 11 / 10 / 9.6 / 9.5 / 9.4 / 9.3 / 9.2 / 9.1 / 9.0 / 8.4 / 8.3 / 8.2 / 8.1 / 8.0 / 7.4 / 7.3 / 7.2 / 7.1

This documentation is for an unsupported version of PostgreSQL.
You may want to view the same page for the current version, or one of the other supported versions listed above instead.

PostgreSQL 8.4.22 Documentation
Prev	Fast Backward	Chapter 31. Large Objects	Fast Forward	Next

31.2. Implementation Features

The large object implementation breaks large objects up into "chunks" and stores the chunks in rows in the database. A B-tree index guarantees fast searches for the correct chunk number when doing random access reads and writes.

Prev	Home	Next
Introduction	Up	Client Interfaces