Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: blob_id is stored as a part of a record data
Author Ann Harrison
Lukasz,
>
> So blobs aren't RLE compressed ?
>

Right. RLE wins only when there are three or more identical bytes
in a row. Most text and graphics don't have long repeats of identical
bytes. In the absence of repeats, this particular RLE adds a bit less
than 1% to the size of the data.

Good luck,


Ann