explain the usefulness of java.sql.Xlob

gavinking · gavinking · commit 79d2e208a651 · 2023-05-19T11:26:47.000+02:00
diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/introduction/Mapping.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/introduction/Mapping.adoc
@@ -638,6 +638,8 @@ class Book {
 }
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+The advantage is that a `java.sql.Clob` or `java.sql.Blob` can in principle index up to 2^63^ characters or bytes, much more data than you can fit in a Java `String` or `byte[]` array (or in your computer).
+
 To assign a value to these fields, we'll need to use a `LobHelper`.
 We can get one from the `Session`:
 

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`638`	`638`	`}`
`639`	`639`	`----`
`640`	`640`
	`641`	+The advantage is that a `java.sql.Clob` or `java.sql.Blob` can in principle index up to 2^63^ characters or bytes, much more data than you can fit in a Java `String` or `byte[]` array (or in your computer).
	`642`	`+`
`641`	`643`	To assign a value to these fields, we'll need to use a `LobHelper`.
`642`	`644`	We can get one from the `Session`:
`643`	`645`