> I then proceeded with implementing my own block-oriented data table
> using bytea for storage. This approach has been more flexible but has a
> couple of draw-backs:
>
> 1. To partially update a bytea field, I have to load it first,
> resulting in the overhead of an extra query.
>
> 2
Hello,
I am in a undergraduate course where we are doing some free-range
research. I have selected to do a database file system for Linux built
on PostgreSQL, and using FUSE to expose a POSIX interface.
Originally I wanted to use large objects, but was turned away after
discovering that there i