Database syntax -- array to BLOB
Pete
pete at mollysrevenge.com
Wed Dec 21 17:15:14 EST 2011
I think the problem I had with blobs is that a base64 encoded string is
text, not binary so trying to put into a column that thinks it's getting
binary data seems to mess things up. But I don't remember for sure. All I
know is that using base64 encoding and a text column works just fine for me.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin <
ruslan_zasukhin at valentina-db.com> wrote:
> On 12/21/11 11:22 PM, "Pete" <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
>
> > The problem I had was that it just didn't work using a blob. The encoded
> > array got stored OK but LC didn't recognise what came back as an array,
> > don't remember all the details.
>
> This can be interested feature actually.
>
> A) I not remember right now if V4REV support ARRAY to BLOB ...
> but probably yes, should work, because we have
> FixedBinary field
> VarBinary field
> BLOB field
>
> and should be something to put binary value from REV into field.
>
> But since array is special structure, may be we can/need provide
> special API func for this. E.g. WriteArrayToBLOB( fld, array )
>
> anyway with Valentina no need to have overhead of base64 encoding...
>
>
> > The default max size of a text field in SQLite is 1 million characters
> so I
> > think he'd be pretty safe.
>
> B) BLOB/TEXT in Valentina DB limited by huge numbers ...
>
>
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>
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