Hi, I am storing fairly large hunks of data into a MyISAM table and am wondering what the best way of retrieving that data would be. I have a longblob column which is used to store data but when that data is returned, I'd rather it wasn't allocated a buffer in memory. Provided the connection to MySQL is local, is the client API able to return a readonly mmaped area into the myisam data file which corresponds to the blob column or is the data storage not done linearly. If this cannot be done, I'd appreciate any pointers people can offer regarding the retrieval of large columns. Cheers, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ PGP: 1024D/FFE3035D A0ED DAC4 77EC D674 5487 5B5C 4F89 9A4E FFE3 035D --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php