How can you tell how big the encoded array will be? I would use blobs whenever the size might increase in the future beyond what I expected. But if the array is a fixed size, and you know for certain it will never grow beyond x, then a text column would do fine.
Bob On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Pete wrote: > One thing I mentioned earlier that might be relevant to him is that there's > no need to use blobs when storing LC arrays. Just use base64 encoding and > store it in a text field, works fine. Some folks on this list pointed me > in that direction a few months back. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
