> I think you are right, getObject() should return byte[]. I will
> correct this after I check the specs once more.

I tried to respond today couple of hours ago, but Yahoo seems to have
lost my reply.

I checked the JDBC 3.0 API, and it says that for BLOB fields we have
to return Blob instances. So, I will not change FBBlobField, since
it, in my opinion, it works correctly.

byte[] should be returned for BINARY field, but Firebird has no
BINARY type. But I must admit that we have to clean up the driver to
remove any reference to the BINARY types (at least I have found it in
FBResultSetMetaData.java).

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy