Re: 7.0 key features

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