--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Ann Harrison <aharrison@...> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:42 PM, lmatusz <matuszewski.lukasz@...> wrote:
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> I'm thinking about your size estimates,

Yes, my size estimates are for RLE compressed records - so they can be bigger if uncompressed.

>
> However, blobs aren't susceptible to the same compression -
> regardless of type - BLOB or CLOB - they are stored at their
> meaningful length with no easily compressed trailing spaces
> or zeros.

So blobs aren't RLE compressed ?

Thanks again...
Lukasz Matuszewski