Re: BLOB - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: BLOB
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0209192036470.1307-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: BLOB  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:

> Is there some reason why we didn't call text 'clob' and bytea 'blob'?

At the time our types were created there was no standard defining the
other types.

> or at least add aliases?

Mapping clob to text might be OK, but blob and bytea have totally
different input formats.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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