WG: [QUESTIONS] Re: [HACKERS] text should be a blob field

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 ?

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I don't know, but imho it's not too hard to implement.

Vadim

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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