Get TEXT value of a CLOB OID in Postgresql

I have a database table that looks like:

create table answers(
id int not null,
question_id int not null,
answer text null
)

This table was originally build by Hibernate using the @Lob attribute for the "answer" column. I did not realize it at the time, but when setup that way, Hibernate stores an OID in the column instead of the actual text. Everything works fine when I use Hibernate to retrieve the values since it automatically converts the OID to the CLOB string, however it is becoming a performance problem and I'd like to get rid of the OID.

select * from answers
ID QUESTION_ID ANSWER
===============================
1 123 55123
2 234 51614
3 345 56127
should be
ID QUESTION_ID ANSWER
===============================
1 123 Male
2 234 203-555-1212
3 345 555 Main St. New York, NY

My desire is to add an extra column to the table "ANSWER_VALUE TEXT" and do something like below to get the actual value into the table, then change Hibernate around to not use the @Lob designator

update answers set ANSWER_VALUE= getValueFromOID(ANSWER)

Does that "getValueFromOID" function exist? If not, could I get some pointers on how to create one or at least how to fetch the actual value of an OID?

Thanks

Thanks goes to a_horse_with_no_name. Solution is:

update answers set answer_value = lo_get(cast(value as bigint))

Note - the lo_get function appears to be present in Postgres 9.4 or higher. For earlier versions, I don't see a way of doing this directly. I'm currently running 9.0, but this just accelerated my upgrade plans.

StackExchange Database Administrators Q#90857, answer score: 16