Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
As long as you support strings that have embedded nulls, there is no difference between a string and a blob. Given the number of languages that support embedded nulls, you could safely call a blob a string.
Yes they support anything at all that will fit into the available RAM, that's why "string" is too restrictive a term for it, so I changed the name to "blob", and now "Blob's your uncle"...
Martin