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What is the maximum size of a BLOB?
Why does the doc say 4GB and the database say 16MB as the max size of a BLOB?

May 14th, 2000 20:12
Nathan Wallace, Benjamin Pflugmann
 


The 16MB limit you encounter is a limit in the client/server protocol.