Reuven M. Lerner wrote: > When a record in the main table is deleted, there is a rule (yes a rule -- > not a trigger) in the > referencing table that performs a lo_unlink on the associated object. > I just want to check that my intuition is correct: Wouldn't it be way faster > and more efficient > for us to use BYTEA columns to store the data (which can get into the 20-50 > MB range), > and for us to just depend on ON DELETE CASCADE, rather than a rule? [followed by dramatic performance numbers] Could you try with a trigger instead of a rule and see if the performance is better? Yours, Laurenz Albe
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