OK, I was able to strip it down to single select on a fresh empty database.
If I do "select x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from rdb$database" then I get stuck on op_fetch. I get the op_fetch_response (66), but trying to get then the status and count numbers for the response no luck. There're nothing more in the stream from server (compressed or uncompressed). Surprisingly doing "select x'00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000' from rdb$database" works fine. Isn't that kind of weird? -- Mgr. Jiří Činčura Independent IT Specialist On Sun, Aug 21, 2016, at 15:35, Jiří Činčura wrote: > Maybe surprisingly, when the blob I'm trying to read is all zeros, the > server responds in expected way. Random bytes make it all fall apart. > > I have a simple test app, that surfaces it. If some core devs would like > to have a look from the other side. > > -- > Mgr. Jiří Činčura > Independent IT Specialist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel