Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
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> > 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
