At 04:09 AM 3/06/2008, inoffensive_2006 wrote:

>> The "Segment Size" value is no longer of any real significance for
>> modern applications, it is for support of real legacy applications (ie.
>> ancient).
>>
>> A value of 80 is fine for all purposes.
>
>Thanks Sean:
>
> So, why does this:
>
> CON_IMAGE BLOB SUB_TYPE 0 SEGMENT SIZE 80
>
> Result in this?
>
> Context: Blob::Write
> Message: Invalid segment size (max 64Kb-1)
>
> If segment size isn't an issue, why does Firebird even
>have this error message?

Firebird doesn't have this error message. Have you considered raising this problem in the IBPP forum? It looks possible that IBPP has some kind of logical error occurring when you have a blob that is close to the upper boundary of the size limit on the buffer IBPP is using to pass blob streams across the wire.

./heLen