On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:58:13 +1000, Heather wrote: [delete Lob when no longer referenced] >Shouldn't the JDBC driver fix up things like that though? Its not an interface issue. You'll see exactly the same behaviour using the interfaces for C/C++, Perl, Python etc. This is not something an interface can easily fix. The driver on the client side does not know if there are any rows referencing the Lob. If this needs to be changed, it would have to be changed on the backend. Barry suggested last week to eventually change the Blob-implementation to the toast model. That would make a Blob part of a row and the delete kludge would no longer be needed. Regards, René Pijlman ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]