At 01:48 PM 12/11/99 +0100, Jan Wieck wrote:
> I thought to use a regular table. Of course, it will eat
> buffers, but managing external files or even large objects
> for it IMHO isn't that simple, if you take transaction
> commit/abort and MVCC problematic into account too. And IMHO
> this is something that must be covered, because I meant to
> create a DATATYPE that can be used as a replacement for TEXT
> if that's too small, so it must behave as a regular datatype,
> without any restrictions WRT beeing able to rollback etc.
Yes, please, this is what (some of, at least) the world wants.
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