Hex encoded - and with some engines, you can specify compressed (read zlib) output.
I have seen multiple different implementations of the extract including some that use multiple different files in sub-directories, while others extract to xml. It all depends upon the engine and the purpose of the dump in the first place. Most dumps are used with version control systems while others are used for version upgrades. best regards Dalton On 19 November 2012 11:41, Alex Peshkoff <peshk...@mail.ru> wrote: > On 11/19/12 20:22, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: >> 19.11.2012 16:54, Ann Harrison wrote: >>> Gbak is not equivalent to the MySQL or Postgres dumps which produce a >>> series of insert >>> statements that can be edited. >> I wonder how they manage big BLOBs? >> > As far as I remember in hex, but you may try yourself. > What can be said for sure - a series of insert statements is definitely > not optimized for size, but certainly well compressable. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, > SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
