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Check out Tanel's paper on LOB internals :
http://integrid.info/Poder_LOB_Internals.pdf
cheers,
Kurt
"Spendius" <spendius_at_muchomail.com> wrote in message
news:1157185172.906395.34960_at_m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> I've noticed when you do a block dump that there are
> 36 extra bytes at the beginning of a lob field (and
> the length of the lob returned by DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH
> substracts these 36 bytes from its result), even if it's
> empty, so the length shown in a trace file is always
> length of data + 36.
> Someone knows what these byte are about ? Does it
> depend on the block size ?
>
> Thanks.
> Spendius
>
Received on Sat Sep 02 2006 - 07:09:59 CDT