Re: [HACKERS] LONG

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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