Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Re: Record Encoding
Author Jim Starkey
Ann W. Harrison wrote:

>Jim Starkey wrote:
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>>Also,
>>the engine cannot encode a blob with a compression algorithm not
>>understood by the client.
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>Why not? Or do you mean that the engine can send a compressed blob to a
>client that doesn't understand the compression algorithm?
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Let me try again in English. The engine should not send a blob to a
client compressed by an algorithm not known by the client. The engine
and client must establish at initial connect time the mutually
understood algorithms. The client should compress blobs in the "latest"
algorithm.

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Jim Starkey
Netfrastructure, Inc.
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