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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>53.30. pg_largeobject</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="catalog-pg-language.html" title="53.29. pg_language" /><link rel="next" href="catalog-pg-largeobject-metadata.html" title="53.31. pg_largeobject_metadata" /></head><body id="docContent" class="container-fluid col-10"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">53.30. <code class="structname">pg_largeobject</code></th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="catalog-pg-language.html" title="53.29. pg_language">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="catalogs.html" title="Chapter 53. System Catalogs">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 53. System Catalogs</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.7 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="catalog-pg-largeobject-metadata.html" title="53.31. pg_largeobject_metadata">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1" id="CATALOG-PG-LARGEOBJECT"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">53.30. <code class="structname">pg_largeobject</code></h2></div></div></div><a id="id-1.10.4.32.2" class="indexterm"></a><p>
   The catalog <code class="structname">pg_largeobject</code> holds the data making up
   <span class="quote"><span class="quote">large objects</span></span>.  A large object is identified by an OID
   assigned when it is created.  Each large object is broken into
   segments or <span class="quote"><span class="quote">pages</span></span> small enough to be conveniently stored as rows
   in <code class="structname">pg_largeobject</code>.
   The amount of data per page is defined to be <code class="symbol">LOBLKSIZE</code> (which is currently
   <code class="literal">BLCKSZ/4</code>, or typically 2 kB).
  </p><p>
   Prior to <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> 9.0, there was no permission structure
   associated with large objects.  As a result,
   <code class="structname">pg_largeobject</code> was publicly readable and could be
   used to obtain the OIDs (and contents) of all large objects in the system.
   This is no longer the case; use
   <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-largeobject-metadata.html" title="53.31. pg_largeobject_metadata"><code class="structname">pg_largeobject_metadata</code></a>
   to obtain a list of large object OIDs.
  </p><div class="table" id="id-1.10.4.32.5"><p class="title"><strong>Table 53.30. <code class="structname">pg_largeobject</code> Columns</strong></p><div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="pg_largeobject Columns" border="1"><colgroup><col /></colgroup><thead><tr><th class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
       Column Type
      </p>
      <p>
       Description
      </p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
       <code class="structfield">loid</code> <code class="type">oid</code>
       (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-largeobject-metadata.html" title="53.31. pg_largeobject_metadata"><code class="structname">pg_largeobject_metadata</code></a>.<code class="structfield">oid</code>)
      </p>
      <p>
       Identifier of the large object that includes this page
      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
       <code class="structfield">pageno</code> <code class="type">int4</code>
      </p>
      <p>
       Page number of this page within its large object
       (counting from zero)
      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
       <code class="structfield">data</code> <code class="type">bytea</code>
      </p>
      <p>
       Actual data stored in the large object.
       This will never be more than <code class="symbol">LOBLKSIZE</code> bytes and might be less.
      </p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break" /><p>
   Each row of <code class="structname">pg_largeobject</code> holds data
   for one page of a large object, beginning at
   byte offset (<code class="literal">pageno * LOBLKSIZE</code>) within the object.  The implementation
   allows sparse storage: pages might be missing, and might be shorter than
   <code class="literal">LOBLKSIZE</code> bytes even if they are not the last page of the object.
   Missing regions within a large object read as zeroes.
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