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Re: Blob data

From: Warren Young <warren(at)etr-usa.com>
Date: Wed Jun 27 2007 - 01:13:45 EDT

Kevin Waterson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com> wrote:
>
> Storing arbitrary data in a BLOB column is

>> tantamount to trying to turn the database into a file system.  If you 
>> want a file system, use a file system.

>
> What is a file system, if not a database?

That's the sort of logic that leads one to believe that the only data structure anyone needs is a hash table (Javascript), or that because bc is Turing complete, that it is a good general purpose programming language.

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