>
> > What is the "Borlandish solution"?
>
> In recent IB versions, read committed transactions don't block GC and this
> is good. But they don't track blob references as this is not as good. So
> there may be a moment of time when you have a blob id to fetch the blob
> contents, but the blob is already garbage collected. As a result, you will
> either get a runtime error or a wrong blob content, depending on whether
> this blob id has been reused or not. At least this is what I remember from
> the previous discussion.

What's the reason to re-use BLOB IDs?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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