I agree to a point ... however, you get the feeling this is one of those
classic Macromedia/ACF examples of where it was by-accident, as oppose
to any great design. You get the sense that somewhere an engineer in
ACF said "ooh .. it does that?"
Blobs are slightly different, as that is just binary data, and SQL
databases handle that with no problems. They are considered a single
"type". A structure inside a column data, is not a single type. Where
does it end though? A query built up of rows/columns of inner queries!
Can you imagine the CFOUTPUT/CFLOOP logic to iterate over that bad
boy?!?! ;)
We won't be supporting it, as Alex noted, it just feels wrong. We've
already implemented enough quirks as it is.
Fiddlesticks wrote:
I think you're being a little harsh about storing rich objects in a
query. After all, queries already support binary objects. Whether or
not it's dumb, it is a compatibility issue, which is what I thought we
were shooting for here.
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