Often, BLOB columns are used to store files, such as images, movies, PDFs or any other type of binary data. Sometimes, those binary streams start with some pattern that makes it easy to recognise the file type, e.g. images, or PDFs. For the most common file types, it might be useful to directly open the OS's default editor to view the BLOB's content
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The idea was posted10 months ago
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YEAH that is very very very very important for me!
Can I vote for it about ten times :p
Operating systems usually encounter the default editor/viewer for a file by its extension. BLOBs do not have an extension.
But TEE could ask for an editor the first time and remember that per table/column...
In that case an "open with" context menue would be important to override that memory.
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That makes perfect sense. It would be much easier (and more reliable) to implement an "Open with..." context menu than to auto-recognise content.
I require this feature to be available as my Messaging system is using Oracle Blob as a temporary medium to store messages. It will be very useful to view those messages from eclipse during troubleshooting sessions.