Hi,

At April 16, 2003, 11:34, Heiko Tappe wrote:

> 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.

The answer was that VARCHARs will no longer be padded, and the change
was included in FB 1.5 RC1. CHARs on the other hand will still be
padded, at least until the protocol is revised and changed for
Firebird 2.0.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)