From: Vyacheslav Akhmechet Date: May 11 2009 4:55pm Subject: BLOB memory deallocation (storage engine dev) List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/36623 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I understand that when I load a row that contains a blob column, my storage engine needs to allocate a buffer in memory for the data, and place the pointer to this memory into the relevant field. However, who is responsible for deallocating this buffer? Regards, - Slava