05.03.2017 16:59, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > Wasn't VARBINARY a syntatic sugar for VARCHAR CHARACTER SET OCTETS?
It was supposed to be so. But one little thing make difference: subtype. > It looks like if things works different (even in a non ideal condition), > there is a bug in the new code. Not quite so. Old code in GPRE (for unknown reason) checks subtype of varchar fields as if they were BLOBs and generate blr_cstring for subtype 0 and blr_text for anything else. -- WBR, SD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel