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are BLOBs deleted that are not referenced?

David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>

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From: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-ports@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-07-03T09:28:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

are BLOBs deleted that are not referenced any more?

Imagine, I have a table with a column

  | text   | oid  |     4 |

when this row is deleted, will postgres throw the BLOB away?

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