> Tim Bunce wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:17:17PM +1000, Mike Battersby wrote:
> > > Is it preferable to support LongReadLen and LongTruncOk, or just to
return
> > > the entire field?
> > And if you have table full of multi-gigabyte video clips?

> Don't select them?  I'm not sure -- what's the status of blob_read in DBI
> (definitely not supported in my current code)?  Just getting the first
part
> of a multi-gigabyte long video clip doesn't seem helpful at all.

What's the point of storing data you don't have the capability to process ?

OK, I can see the objections to that argument already
............................ 

Mark.


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