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Add more description of the extension and acknowledgments.
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Allow access to "external files" from PostgreSQL server file systems.
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This extension is only a "secure version" of the server side lo_* functions.
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This extension adds the same functionalities given by the Oracle's BFILE data
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type that stores unstructured binary data in flat files outside the database.
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A BFILE column stores a file locator that points to an external file containing
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the data: (DIRECTORY, FILENAME). Here the data type is called EFILE.
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1. Installation requirements
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PostgreSQL 9.1 or better are required.
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Author Dominique Legendre
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Copyright (c) 2012-2015 Brgm - All rights reserved.
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6. Acknowledgements
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Great thanks to Gilles Darold for code review, security patches and project hosting.
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