Re: How to initialize varchar2 of infinite length

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:44:02 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2015.01.28.20.44.34_at_gmail.com>


On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:40:02 +1100, Noons wrote:

> On 28/01/2015 2:21 AM, Mladen Gogala wrote:
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>> Even CLOB is not infinite, it is at most 2G.

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> According to the doc I mentioned, it's 8 TB to 128 TB depending on
> blocksize. Latest releases, mind you.

What would you do to a guy who loaded an 8TB LOB into your database? I wouldn't be too happy with such turn of events. Some scenes from the "Dirty Harry" movies come to my mind....

>

>> There is no such thing as infinity.

>
> Indeed.

Unless you're Chuck Norris. He counted to infinity and back. Twice.

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Mladen Gogala
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