should I call lo_unlink ?
A delete didn’t remove the object from pg_largeobject.
should I call lo_unlink ? A delete didn’t remove the object from pg_largeobject.
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should I call lo_unlink ?
A delete didn’t remove the object from pg_largeobject.
Yes, you need to explicitly call lo_unlink(). I assume you just DELETEd the row that held a reference to it, and that will not remove the actual large object.
If you only ever reference it from the same place, you can always create a trigger to do it automatically for you.