Florian Lindauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Bill Schneider wrote:
> > 
>> I've had similar experience with both Oracle BLOBs and PostgreSQL OIDs.
>> 
>> Size limitation is not the only difference between LOBs and RAW columns,
>> though.  RAW data is stored in line with the row and BLOBs are stored out of
>> row, meaning a LOB identifier is stored with the row and the data is stored
>> somewhere else.  What this means is, a "select id, description from
>> table_with_blob" will be much faster than a "select id, description from
>> table_with_raw"
>
> Oops - you are right. I just sniffed how much data is coming over
> the net on a simple select on a line with a 1.3MB "blob" - and it
> was >1.3MB.. My simple jdbc-sql-browser shows me a "[B@12345", just
> like with a real blob..
> This indeed is a very bad thing and I will have to use a separate
> table for my raw-field.
>
> Thanks for the hint!

Is there any Torque change that needs to come out of this discussion?

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