OID or lo

Started by Cristian Custodioabout 23 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Cristian Custodio
crstian@terra.com.br

Hi,

Does anybody would know say me, what is the real difference between OID and lo.

Cristian

#2Andrew Sullivan
andrew@libertyrms.info
In reply to: Cristian Custodio (#1)
Re: OID or lo

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:24:49PM -0300, Cristian Custodio wrote:

Hi,

Does anybody would know say me, what is the real difference between
OID and lo.

They're different things. "OID" stands for (roughly) Object
IDentifier. Many objects (potentially every row) in the database
have an OID. "lo" stands for Large Object; these types of database
objects are manipulated using the lo interface. See the user's
guide for more.

A

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