# Blobs and row formats

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/blobs-and-row-formats/1631>\
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [March 25, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/blobs-and-row-formats/1631 "2011-03-25T12:02:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![mjgp2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mjgp2/32/851_2.png) [@mjgp2](https://forums.percona.com/u/mjgp2)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/blobs-and-row-formats/1631/1 "2011-03-25T12:02:38Z")

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Hi!

I have a table with multiple blobs on a row.

It would seem that the dynamic or compressed row type would be the most performant for this, but this is only available in innodb barracuda… Are there any plans to port it to xtradb?

Am I totally wrong about this? It would seem that the aim is to generally avoid overflow pages, and any blob bigger than 768 bytes spills over into an overflow with row type compact, which is what xtradb uses?

All wisdom gratefully received!

Matt

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**Author:** ![Peter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/peter/32/2_2.png) [@Peter](https://forums.percona.com/u/Peter)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/blobs-and-row-formats/1631/2 "2011-03-25T12:09:44Z")

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XtraDB support Barracuda format and compression. It is enabled exactly same way as in Innodb plugin and MySQL 5.5

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**Author:** ![mjgp2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mjgp2/32/851_2.png) [@mjgp2](https://forums.percona.com/u/mjgp2)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/blobs-and-row-formats/1631/3 "2011-03-25T12:50:37Z")

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Fantastic!

Thanks for the quick reply, this was not clear from the online docs 🙂

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**Author:** ![mr\_book](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@mr\_book](https://forums.percona.com/u/mr_book)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/blobs-and-row-formats/1631/4 "2011-08-15T21:29:51Z")

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Peter wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 10:39

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> XtraDB support Barracuda format and compression. It is enabled exactly same way as in Innodb plugin and MySQL 5.5

It is enabled exactly same way as in Innodb plugin and MySQL 5.5 ???

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