On 14/03/2006, at 9:18 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: > I have several small issues, nevertheless. For example, objects > come to > the storage engine already serialized. I would rather prefer to do the > serialization myself. I don't need, for example, to keep the first > eight > bytes of the object in the database, since that is the OID and I > already > have the OID as the database key. I'll second this, my previous email makes note of the same thing, different reasons but basically the same need. Peter W.