At 08:49 PM 12/5/2000 +0300, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:

>Thanks a lot for your explanation. But it seems to me, that in situations
>when tables contain large character fields, buffer I/O will be the most
>part of a query execution. This will be extremely sad when most of those
>character fields are nulls or empty.

Right. It would not involve a great deal more processing to
compress the intermediate output and address it through an
array... Part of the answer is that returning lots of long
fields, mostly empty, wasn't part of the design center when
that code was written.

Regards,

Ann
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