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
