Thanks Jmodic for correcting me,

I was assumption that, LOBS are in replacement to LONG datatype and part of Object relational features. I was not aware that those data types are still compatible with 8x.

I don't remember exactly, I hit the same situation few months back from 8.0.5 to 7.3.4 and had problems. We were getting the unsupported network dtatatype error. We endup not downgrading but, upgrading the vendor application that supports 805.

[Edited by sreddy on 02-01-2001 at 07:39 PM]