Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Re: Record Encoding
Author Dmitry Yemanov
"Roman Rokytskyy" <rrokytskyy@...> wrote:
>
> Doen't everybody agree about deprecating BLOB SUB_TYPE 1 and adding a
> CLOB with all needed properties? :)

I thought the agreement was to support full interchange between BLOB
SUB_TYPE 1 and native string datatypes and provide CLOB as just a SQL
shortcut for it. Why do we need a new blob type for string operations when
we already have the one that must care of them?


Dmitry