| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Manuel Cabido <manny(at)tinago(dot)msuiit(dot)edu(dot)ph>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BLOB |
| Date: | 2002-09-19 21:38:07 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0209192036470.1307-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:
> Is there some reason why we didn't call text 'clob' and bytea 'blob'?
At the time our types were created there was no standard defining the
other types.
> or at least add aliases?
Mapping clob to text might be OK, but blob and bytea have totally
different input formats.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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