Also try this - 40000 characters of binary string should be transformed into valid 20000 character string SELECT OCTET_LENGTH(x'1234... 40000x ... ') FROM RDB$DATABASE It works in FB2.5, but does not in FB3beta2 -String literal with 40000 bytes exceeds the maximum length of 32765 bytes
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