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

Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>

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From: "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>
To: Peter T Mount <psqlhack@maidast.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, Zeugswetter Andreas SARZ <Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at>, pgsql-hackers@hub.org, PostgreSQL-questions <questions@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-03-05T09:08:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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