Re: 7.0 key features

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.0 key features
Date: 2000-05-08 19:47:09
Message-ID: 391719BD.F0F55324@tm.ee
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Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>
> > It would kind of have to be, wouldn't it, if the row it had to fit in
> > had that limit?
>
> BLOBs aren't. Or did I miss something somewhere? I've always understood
> the text datatype to be simply a text version of a BLOB.

Not yet in Postgres

> Not necessarily in Postgres, but elsewhere.

Maybe elsewere.

In postgres it will be a new kind of (B)LOB, different from current LOs.

Current LOs are again separate from TEXT even ODBC and JDBC use them for
other BLOB support.

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Hannu

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