At 10:05 AM 11/17/2004, Goutam Paruchuri wrote:

>Hello !
>Can anyone tell me how you can determine the segment size in blob data
>type (sub type text).
>BLOB SUB_TYPE TEXT SEGMENT SIZE 400
>
>What does 400 mean in the above context ??

Not much. When InterBase was created, many of the access
methods used static buffers to transfer blob data. The
segment size told them how big a buffer was appropriate.
The value is only a suggestion, any segmented blob can take
any length segment.

Regards,


Ann