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Improve documentation about large-object functions.
Copy-editing for previous patch, plus fixing some longstanding markup issues and oversights (like not mentioning that failures will set the PQerrorMessage string).
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml

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@@ -5804,17 +5804,18 @@ dynamic_library_path = 'C:\tools\postgresql;H:\my_project\lib;$libdir'
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<listitem>
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<para>
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In <productname>PostgreSQL</> releases prior to 9.0, large objects
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did not have access privileges and were, in effect, readable and
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writable by all users. Setting this variable to <literal>on</>
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did not have access privileges and were, therefore, always readable
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and writable by all users. Setting this variable to <literal>on</>
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disables the new privilege checks, for compatibility with prior
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releases. The default is <literal>off</>.
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Only superusers can change this setting.
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</para>
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<para>
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Setting this variable does not disable all security checks related to
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large objects &mdash; only those for which the default behavior has
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changed in <productname>PostgreSQL</> 9.0.
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For example, <literal>lo_import()</literal> and
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<literal>lo_export()</literal> need superuser privileges independent
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<literal>lo_export()</literal> need superuser privileges regardless
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of this setting.
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</para>
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</listitem>

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