On 9 January 2012 12:36, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 01/09/12 3:07 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote:
>>>
>>> For the record, it looks like MS SQL Server has some equivalent feature :
>>> > FILESTREAM.
>>
>> And Oracle has BFILE.
>
> aren't these things functionally similar to PG's LO (large object) ?
Oracle has BLOBs and CLOBs as well. IIRC, BFILEs reference a file on
the file-system, while [BC]LOBs are stored inside the database in some
way.
Admittedly, the last time I worked with an Oracle database is 10 years
ago. Things may have changed, or my memory of them may have ;)
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