Hi <@U0EC2UPDF>, you can tell me the difference be...

# exposed

[SrSouza]

Hi @tapac, you can tell me the difference between Blob and Binary columns?
And in the future you add like a column for ByteReadPacket using Blob?

[tapac]

The main difference is the representation in a database for the most databases (except Postgresql and Orable) binary column used varbinary limited by column length and blob uses blob - without limitations.

What is ByteReadPacket?

[SrSouza]

Is from the Kotlinx.io

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io/blob/master/core/commonMain/src/kotlinx/io/core/ByteReadPacket.kt

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I don't know you but blob is kinda annoying to use(annoying because I always parse to bytearray)

[SrSouza]

Maybe a ByteArray column using Blob can help a lot, but I think is not the goal of the project because the Table is exactly like the Table from SQL, blob is Blob, text is Text, dateTime is DateTime, etc...

[tapac]

The current problem is that Exposed works over JDBC which has not very comfortable API to work with blobs, but I plan to separate JDBC implementation from Exposed main API and then (maybe) it will be possible to improve blobs.