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by masklinn 5412 days ago
> Nope. There was blob-support, but that relied on special library functions to extract the data to a file which you'd then have to manually read.

OK.

> The old functionality is still there (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/largeobjects....) though I totally failed and still fail to see any practical use.

Memory constraints maybe? That's about the only justification I could see for using that over bytea: if you store single binary objects in the GB+ range, you may want to interact with them as streams.