Re: OID's

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:01 pm, Joolz wrote:
> Michael Glaesemann zei:
> >
> > OIDS are a system level implementation. They are no longer required
> > (you can make tables without OIDS) and they may go away someday.
>
> Out of curiosiry: how will we handle blobs once the OID's are gone?
>
I would guess bytea would become the standard for blob use. The size
is limited to about 1G compressed, but I would guess most people don't
store 2G files in there DB at the moment, or have that much ram to be
able to handle a value that big.

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