Re: Documentation of the Front End/Back End Protocol for Large Objects

Hi Tom.

Thanks for your suggestion, this was my choice, after I was unable to
find any reference.

On 6/23/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Marco Bizzarri" <marco(dot)bizzarri(at)gmail(dot)com> 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
>

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