> 1. Traditional approach is not fast and smart enough for real bulk loads
> (millions of records) due to remote protocol overhead. Using external
> tables is *way* faster, but complicated and ext. tables have very
> limited support for data types (especially blobs are a show stopper
> here). Because remote is the bottleneck here, it's pure server side feature.

What if we extend our external tables to load and save CSV format? Do
people really need to load millions of BLOBs? And even if they do, do we
need to make it fast?

Roman