Memo Field

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:33:37PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:51:12PM -0400, Kenneth Brody, the prominent pundit,
> witicized:
> > 
> >     Next, it goes through every record, in record number order, and for
> >     each blob/memo field, it reads it into memory using a special build
> >     of the blob I/O routines.  (These routines verify the integrity of
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Can I ask a -really- silly question?  If the regular blob I/O routines are
> subject to problems, why isn't fP simply built with the obviously more
> robust and fault tolerant ones utilised in blobfix?

I asked myself that question all the way to the end, and then I
answered it: you don't want production code, unsupervised, thinking it
should be fixing things that are broken.

Cheers,
-- jra
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