At 12:27 AM 3/21/2002 -0400, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:

> > > Watch this chunk, what's the value of offset? And length?
> >
> > record_length = 46;
> > length = 48;
>
>Nothing special. The code in that function found that it needed an alignment
>for some field and this raised the length from 46 to 48.

Actually, gbak is very careful to order fields in its messages by
alignment, starting with quads and doubles, then longs, then shorts
and varchars, then chars.

What I have seen, on occasion, is a column (rdb$fields record) with
a type (rdb$field_type) that evaluates to long (8) and a length
(rdb$field_length) of 2, or, conversely, a type of short (7) and
a length of 4. Gbak naively believes the length, but the engine
believes the type. I believe there's a bug report suggesting fixing
gbak to check length/type and the engine to do the same one updates.

Regards,

Ann
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