Progress
Version 9
Product Update Bulletin
Bit String Data Type Enhancements
This section describes the changes to the VARBINARY and VARCHAR data types, and the new LONG VARBINARY data type.
This is the new syntax for a
bit_string_data_type
:
VARBINARY ( length )
Type
VARBINARY
corresponds to a variable-length bit field of the specified length. The maximum length is 31995.LVARBINARY ( length )
Type
LVARBINARY
corresponds to an arbitrarily long byte array with the maximum length defined by the amount of available disk storage up to 2,000,000,000. A BLOB is an object of data typeLVARBINARY
.
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