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Subject: Re: Large Objects
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 21:41:51 +0200
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Jürgen Purtz schrieb am 07.10.2016 um 21:31:
> - Types a) and b) are named identical in the standard and in Postgres
> (CHAR/VARCHAR). Data type c) is named CLOB in the standard and TEXT
> in Postgres.
>Why this different wording, if there is no real
> difference between the terms?
I guess because of historical reasons.
But if you need CLOB, then just define it:
create domain clob as text;
create table foo (id integer, c1 clob);
Although I do agree that it would make sense to create CLOB as an alias for text and BLOB an alias for bytea.
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