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authorRobert Haas2013-06-12 16:20:59 +0000
committerRobert Haas2013-06-12 16:26:17 +0000
commit0da76f384d71cffeb695391e97713e0e5bc58c4b (patch)
treee9a4bc7fc2f63084f1e93245f34f1819c648f4f5 /doc/src
parentf5ef162dffdd608ea48d9632d7847a1bd393d9c6 (diff)
Improve description of loread/lowrite.
Patch by me, reviewed by Tatsuo Ishii.
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml21
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml
index 9ddb9c74dc0..d37bef03436 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml
@@ -396,14 +396,10 @@ int lo_unlink(PGconn *conn, Oid lobjId);
<para>
There are server-side functions callable from SQL that correspond to
- each of the client-side functions described above(please note
- that the server side function
- for <function>lo_read</function> is <function>loread</function> and
- the server side function for <function>lo_write</function>
- is <function>lowrite</function>); indeed, for the most part the
- client-side functions are simply interfaces to the equivalent
- server-side functions. The ones that are actually useful to call
- via SQL commands are
+ each of the client-side functions described above; indeed, for the
+ most part the client-side functions are simply interfaces to the
+ equivalent server-side functions. The ones that are actually useful
+ to call via SQL commands are
<function>lo_creat</function><indexterm><primary>lo_creat</></>,
<function>lo_create</function><indexterm><primary>lo_create</></>,
<function>lo_unlink</function><indexterm><primary>lo_unlink</></>,
@@ -445,6 +441,15 @@ SELECT lo_export(image.raster, '/tmp/motd') FROM image
The client-side functions can be used by any
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> user.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ The functionality of <function>lo_read</function> and
+ <function>lo_write</function> is also available via server-side calls,
+ but the names of the server-side functions differ from the client side
+ interfaces in that they do not contain underscores. You must call
+ these functions as <function>loread</> and <function>lowrite</>.
+ </para>
+
</sect1>
<sect1 id="lo-examplesect">