In answer to your poll...

1. Our applications do not depend on the segment boundaries of BLOBs.
2. Any BLOB read or write is done through a set of API which hides the
segments when reading from a BLOB. Net effect : the BLOBs appear to us as
streams of bytes.

Just speaking of the applications we do develop using Interbase.
Have no information on third-party softwares using Interbase.

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Olivier Mascia T.I.P. Group SA
om@... www.tipgroup.com
Director, Chief Software Architect +32 65 401111

-----Original Message-----
From: IB-Architect@egroups.com
To: IB-Architect@egroups.com
Date: 8 May 2000 11:30:55 -0000
Subject: [IB-Architect] Digest Number 60

> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 12:00:31 -0400
> From: Jim Starkey <jas@...>
> Subject: Re: Database names: Hair trigger
>
> At 09:44 AM 5/7/00 +1000, Helen Borrie wrote:
> >
> >One good reason: existing applications, components, etc. that have
> been
> >forced to treat them. I think it would preclude a large proportion of
> >existing customers from moving forward with InterBase.
> >
> >If there had never been blob segments, we probably wouldn't want to
> put
> >them in. But taking them out
> >?
> >
>
>
> And that is a very good reason. So lets turn this into a poll. Of
> application personally known to you (the list, not just Helen):
>
> 1. How many depend on segment boundaries for proper functioning?
>
> 2. What kind of workarounds are you currently using to get
> around the segment boundaries?
>
> Jim Starkey
>