| From: | Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Large Objects |
| Date: | 2016-10-07 19:41:51 |
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Jürgen Purtz schrieb am 07.10.2016 um 21:31:
> - Types a) and b) are named identical in the standard and in Postgres
> (CHAR/VARCHAR). Data type c) is named CLOB in the standard and TEXT
> in Postgres.
>Why this different wording, if there is no real
> difference between the terms?
I guess because of historical reasons.
But if you need CLOB, then just define it:
create domain clob as text;
create table foo (id integer, c1 clob);
Although I do agree that it would make sense to create CLOB as an alias for text and BLOB an alias for bytea.
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