--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Vlad Khorsun" <hvlad@...> wrote:

>
> > With larger images to save in blobs, IBPP is throwing exceptions
> > with this text:
> >
> > Context: Blob::Write
> > Message: Invalid segment size (max 64Kb-1)
> >

< Snip >

> Try to Write image_buffer in loop using smaller chunks, say 64K-3.

Thanks Vlad, and eveybody who responded:

This works.

Helen, perhaps you might mention in your excellent book that
reading and writing blobs larger than 64KB - 1 in size must be done as
a series of reads and writes, in blocks with sizes less than 64KB - 1.

I appreciate all the suggestions.

Thanks
Larry