If you use BLOBs I do not think you need sqlite_encode_binary and sqlite_decode_binary
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 02:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to sqlite. So far I've been very impressed by it. We > are using it as the backend of an open-source MAPI message store. > Still struggling with locking issues, but looking alright. > > Question, why as the encode and decode funtions been removed? > Did they perform badly, are there bugs? Caveats? > > We have incorporated the old source into our project, though I > hate to rely on dead code. Should we switch to base64? One > very attractive feature of sqlite_encode was that it did minimal > encoding, hence it was more effecient that base64. > > Thanks, > Kervin -- Edward A. Macnaghten http://www.edlsystems.com