Re: Viewing TEXT objects

On 02/10/2009 12:55, mad rug wrote:
> I really don't know. JDBC communication is being handled by a JDO
> library, so I don't know which one is doing this, but I suspect about
> JDO. I feel like asking about it in the forums there, but then I'd like
> to know: is there any performance (disk, read/write speed...) difference
> between storing large text data as TEXT and large object? I believe this
> indirection of storing as large object could mean a small overhead,
> unless it is somehow better using large objects (just then why use TEXT
> for some data that is just a couple of chars?)

Well, as I said I don't really know anything about large objects, but
I'd suspect that you're right about the performance hit with them.

However, TEXT is the recommended type for *any* text storage, big or
small: there's no difference performance-wise between TEXT and
VARCHAR(n), and if anything I'd guess that VARCHAR is a (very very) tiny
bit slower because of the length check. Large object is intended for
binary data.

Ray.

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