WG: [QUESTIONS] Re: [HACKERS] text should be a blob field

Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SARZ <Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at>
To: "'pgsql-hackers@hub.org'" <pgsql-hackers@hub.org>
Date: 1998-03-05T09:26:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> >> 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 ?
> 
> This is also what I would have in mind. But I guess a change to the fe-be
> protocol would still be necessary, since the client now allocates
> a fixed amount of memory to receive one tuple, wasn't it ?
> 
> Andreas
> 
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