> >I don't know whether this restriction is documented somewhere or not. But
> >the real problem is that the code never checks whether a level 2 blob can

be

> >overfilled. Just try to load a 65MB blob into a 1K page size database and
> >the engine bugchecks. I've just added an overflow check into v2.0 to

report

> >a better error message instead. But I have a question: do we consider

this

> >limitation okay? Or perhaps we could extend the current scheme to have

level

> >3, 4 etc blobs to address bigger data? Of course, this talk is not about
> >v2.0.

It is for 2.1 I hope :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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