Hi all,


Not sure if this is a topic for Architect or General,
so I'll try here first - if unsuitable, please advise.


In Paul Beach's blog here

http://paulbeachsblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/system-catalog-additions-in-ods-12.html


he mentions additions to the system tables, notably

RDB$RELATIONS
+ RDB$STATISTICS (blob with binary statistics for the optimizer)


My question is why do these statistics have to be
in blob form - why can they not be held as data
in tables in the way much (most/all?) of this class
of data is held in (dare I mention it <gasp>) Oracle?


Any views (pun intended!), ideas or opinions welcome.


Rgs.



Paul...