Re: OID's - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Russell Smith
Subject Re: OID's
Date
Msg-id 200411162043.00195.mr-russ@pws.com.au
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In response to Re: OID's  ("Joolz" <joolz@arbodienst-limburg.nl>)
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:01 pm, Joolz wrote:
> Michael Glaesemann zei:
> >
> > OIDS are a system level implementation. They are no longer required
> > (you can make tables without OIDS) and they may go away someday.
>
> Out of curiosiry: how will we handle blobs once the OID's are gone?
>
I would guess bytea would become the standard for blob use.  The size
is limited to about 1G compressed, but I would guess most people don't
store 2G files in there DB at the moment, or have that much ram to be
able to handle a value that big.

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