Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

[Sven Köhler]

> I set the isolation level to READ_REPEATABLE and use mysqldump | bzip2 
> to get the result. I've tested the restore and it's fine!

So how does mysqldump handle binary data?

If it does embed the data into the SQL-statement somehow, that's crap, 
since SQL-Statements are limited in length.