Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!rivm!llojd From: llojd@rivm.UUCP (Jan Diesel) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Relational Database, with a Graphical type field Message-ID: <2534@rivm05.UUCP> Date: 29 Jun 90 07:33:23 GMT References: <898@dgis.dtic.dla.mil> <1189@abcom.ATT.COM> Reply-To: llojd@rivm05.UUCP (Jan Diesel) Organization: RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands Lines: 11 In the discussion concerning the storage of graphical data in rdbms's the (new) Ingres user-defined datatype has been mentioned a few times. As far as I know the maximum size of *any* Ingres datatype/column is 2Kb. In my opinion this is a serious drawback for storing graphical data. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan Diesel llojd@rivm.UUCP National Institute for Public Health and Environmental Protection Laboratory for Air Research P.O.Box 1, 3720 BA BILTHOVEN, The Netherlands. -------------------------------------------------------------------