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36 first bytes of a lob: meaning ?

From: Spendius <spendius_at_muchomail.com>
Date: 2 Sep 2006 01:19:32 -0700
Message-ID: <1157185172.906395.34960@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 - 03:19:32 CDT












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