diff docs/source/capabilities.rst @ 373:2fd766784ff2

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author catherine@DellZilla
date Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:14:27 -0400
parents 3efffbf7481f
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--- a/docs/source/capabilities.rst	Sat Aug 08 00:31:05 2009 -0400
+++ b/docs/source/capabilities.rst	Tue Aug 11 10:14:27 2009 -0400
@@ -477,6 +477,21 @@
 top, top9i
   Displays active sessions
 
+BLOB display
+============
+
+(Oracle only, for now)
+
+When a SELECT query returns BLOB columns, most SQL tools simply cannot 
+display the results.  Sqlpython, however, will create
+a local file for each BLOB returned (up to the parameter `bloblimit`),
+and return the filepaths of the new files in the query results.  In a 
+tool like the GNOME terminal, these filepaths work as right-clickable
+links that can open the files.
+
+When the \\h terminator is used to generate HTML table output, if the 
+BLOBs are images, they will be embedded as images in the generated
+table.