Hello everyone! On optimizer call (11-7-2018) it was discussed , instead of selecting the whole blob , sometime we just need to select the subpart of it. And we should extend handler/engine api to facilitate this. Although this looks like a interesting idea , Serg (and I ) did not understand why we need this , what is use case of it. Some use case which I think can be like optimizing substring SELECT SUBSTRING(blob_col, 4,4) FROM t1; And we can push down this SUBSTRING condition directly to storage engine. But apart from this what use case this have ? -- Regards Sachin Setiya Software Engineer at MariaDB