| From: | "Vadim B(dot) Mikheev" <vadim(at)sable(dot)krasnoyarsk(dot)su> |
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| To: | Peter T Mount <psqlhack(at)maidast(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Zeugswetter Andreas SARZ <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org, PostgreSQL-questions <questions(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [QUESTIONS] Re: [HACKERS] text should be a blob field |
| Date: | 1998-03-05 09:08:08 |
| Message-ID: | 34FE6B78.5DE8B8AC@sable.krasnoyarsk.su |
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Peter T Mount wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > make text a blob datatype (maybe storing <= 8k row with tuple, >=8k in blob
> > > tablespace)
> >
>
> There was some talk about this about a month ago.
>
> Although we now have blob support in the JDBC driver, there is one
> outstanding issue with them, that I was waiting for 6.3 to be released
> before starting on it (and almost certainly starting a discussion here
> about it).
>
> Allowing text to use blobs for values larger than the current block size
> would hit the same problem.
When I told about multi-representation feature I ment that applications
will not be affected by how text field is stored - in tuple or somewhere
else. Is this Ok for you ?
Vadim
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