How do you read blobs?

[sfisque]

depends. blobs are merely serialized data. what the actual struct looks like is completely external to the database (except in the case where the blob is manipulated by stored procedures, but we dont use any AFAIK). you'll have to crawl through the .h and .c/cpp files to find the code that parses the blob into its constituent fragments.

there might be something in the wiki that describes a given blob and what data is at what offset into it, but you'll have to search for it.

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