On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 16:40, Hanno Schlichting <ha...@hannosch.eu> wrote: > It looks like the pg_largeobject table actually uses a bytea column > itself. This is on a 9.0 database. But if that's true on pre-9.0 > databases as well, the same restrictions of the "escape" format should > apply here unless the largeobject C code handles things for you.
The largeobject C-code handles this for you. In the end this comes down to a performance difference, and there are clearly speed advantages of using the oid type over the bytea type. -- Martijn Pieters _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev