Hi

> It does not really matter, since the record is already fetched to the

client. So,

> if you use "native" data type (getInt for INTEGERS, getBlob for BLOBs

etc),

> you have very little overhead. In case of BLOBs the overhead is creating

one

> object (no BLOB data are fetched in non-autocommit mode) which gets
> garbage collected. For less overhead you have to use Firebird API

directly.

Okay, I feared that getBlob() would retrieve it, but as you suggest it
doesn't - I am fine with that.

Thanks.

Steffen



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