Re: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Don Baccus
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6
Date
Msg-id 3.0.1.32.19990603151516.00dcee4c@mail.pacifier.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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At 05:39 PM 6/3/99 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

>But, but ... if we fixed the tuple-size problem then people could stop
>using large objects at all, and instead just put their data into tuples.
>I hate to see work going into improving LO support when we really ought
>to be phasing out the whole feature --- it's got *so* many conceptual
>and practical problems ...

Making them go away would be a real blessing.  Oracle folk
bitch about CLOBS and BLOBS and the like, too.  They're a 
pain.



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