[Cosmo-dev] Stamping Model Concerns

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:35 PM 11/30/2006 -0800, Brian Moseley wrote:
>On 11/30/06, Ted Leung <twl at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
>>I thought that Cosmo was already persisting things like jpgs that
>>were shared up from Chandler.   Does cosmo just treat that data as
>>blobs without meaning?
>
>i don't believe chandler shares things like photos. eim isn't defined
>to support arbitrary length blobs (binary values must be 1024 bytes or
>fewer), so it won't be possible with morse code either.

Actually, we do have a "lob" type in EIM, for heavyweight blobs.

The six primitive types are currently int, decimal, datetime, text, bytes, 
and lob.