Hi,

> IMHO, I think that we should make Firebird BLOBs
> behave as BINARY data types. Most applications that
> use JDBC expect a LONGVARBINARY type (not a BLOB),
> and a JDBC implementation that does not provide
> an implementation for LONGVARBINARY will surely
> have troubles with them.

As I wrote in previous reply, my idea is:

- if the subtype of the BLOB field is >= 0 - this is LONGVARBINARY;
- if the subtype of the BLOB field is < 0 - this is BLOB.

What do you think?

Regards,
Roman