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

Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su> — 1998-03-06T02:25:46Z

Zeugswetter Andreas SARZ wrote:
> 
> > >> 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 ?
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't know, but imho it's not too hard to implement.

Vadim