Re: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6
Date: 1999-06-03 22:15:16
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.19990603151516.00dcee4c@mail.pacifier.com
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At 05:39 PM 6/3/99 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

>But, but ... if we fixed the tuple-size problem then people could stop
>using large objects at all, and instead just put their data into tuples.
>I hate to see work going into improving LO support when we really ought
>to be phasing out the whole feature --- it's got *so* many conceptual
>and practical problems ...

Making them go away would be a real blessing. Oracle folk
bitch about CLOBS and BLOBS and the like, too. They're a
pain.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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