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gus bjorklund
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in addition to the current BLOB and CLOB large object types, it might be useful to have another type: a "FLOB" wherein the value of a FLOB column is a pointer to a file in the database server's local filesystem. fetching a FLOB value would cause the contents of the file to be returned to the client in the same way as a BLOB value would be. since the FLOB values are not stored in the database, transaction semantics of FLOBs would have to bit a bit "relaxed" compared to the other types. also, if file no longer exists, instead of an error a unknown value should probably be returned.
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