Re: Latest ODBC driver? / lo (blob) problem with fieldtype

Stijn Vanroye wrote:
> Thanks for the reply's dave. I'll give them a try.
>
> About the blob/lo problem. I'm not sure if this problem is strictly a Delphi issue.
> It seems that in the backend for version 8.0 (maybe a bit before that, I'm not sure),
> the implementation for the lo-datatype changed. Now it's a domain, before you had to
> create your own type named lo to have a field capable of storing (Binary) Large OBjects.
> Somehow the field is now recognized in Delphi as an IntegerField, and no longer as a field for
large objects.
>
> Just a thought of mine, but maybe the implementation in the backend changed, so the ODBC
> recognizes and passes the field as type integer, and no longer as a lo/blob field.
> Otherwise it's something in the implementation of the ODBC driver itself that passes the
> field type as something that delphi understands as integer, maybe the odbc really says it's an
integerfield.
>
> I'll try the 08.02 and see what that does.

Please check 7.4+ Protocol option when you try lo domain type.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue