>I have trouble conceiving of an
>object larger than 2gb which I'd want to access like a file, and not
>like a database, or an image, or a stream, or something else.
independent of size, what *would* you want to access like a file?
in a perfect world. -:)
i don't know what's worse ... accessing a 2GB+ object like a file trying
to fish out some some data, or doing ftells() and fseeks() in a 2K object
looking for the next "Received:". Like a lot of you just did.
we're already on the slippery slope.
why do we do that? anybody out there with their mailbox in oracle
or anything else they can't cat?
