I found the thread.
But the "final answer" is missing :-(

Dmitry Yemanov wanted to look into it and give a response a few days later.
But he did not give an answer so far. And that was on the first of february.

--Heiko

""Carlos H. Cantu"" <warmbooter@...> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:466933019.20030416110713@......

> Both ways. This was discussed sometime ago in Firebird-Devel list. I
> cant remember exactly what makes the behavior diferent, but there are
> situations where it is sent "fat" and other situation where it is sent
> "trimmed".
>
> Try to do a search in firebird-devel list.
>
> Carlos
>
>
> HT> How will FB 1.5 transmit varchar and chars values?
> HT> Will it pad those values to it's full declaration length on

transmission

> HT> like FB 1?
>
> HT> (Hope this is the right place to ask)
>
> HT> --Heiko