On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Vadim B. Mikheev wrote:
> Zeugswetter Andreas SARZ wrote:
> >
> > > >> 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 ?
> > >
> > > This is also what I would have in mind. But I guess a change to the fe-be
> > > protocol would still be necessary, since the client now allocates
> > > a fixed amount of memory to receive one tuple, wasn't it ?
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I don't know, but imho it's not too hard to implement.
>
> Vadim
One thing, I don't allocate a fixed amount of memory for JDBC when
receiving tuples.
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