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Unsupported versions: 7.3 / 7.2 / 7.1
Historical version. PostgreSQL 7.3 reached end of support in November 2007. See the current manual for supported releases.

seek

Name

seek -- change current position in the large object

Synopsis

seek(offset, whence)

Parameters

offset

Position offset (integer).

whence

Positional parameter (integer).

Return Type

integer

New current position in the object.

Exceptions

TypeError

Bad parameter type, or too many arguments.

IOError

Object is not opened, or seek error.

pg.error

Invalid connection or invalid object.

Description

seek() method allows to move the cursor position in the large object. The whence parameter can be obtained by OR-ing the constants defined in the pg module (SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END).

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