Why do text fields and tinytextfields show as (blob)?

[Lundstudio]

I am using TMySQL50Connection to a MySQL5 database and the connection works, the query and the transaction also works but I can't see the contents of the text fields in my DBGrid. They all show as (blob). Do I need to make a conversion, if so, where and how? The fields are not blob fields in MySql but text fields, and tinytext fields. What is wrong?

[kellemes]

My apologies for responding to this old thread but I' m just starting with lazarus and have the exact same issue..
The only difference is I'm connecting to a sqlite db.
Indeed, all db-components show fields of type TEXT as blob.. why is that?

[Lacak2]

For SQLite (sqlDB components):
 TEXT fields are mapped to ftMemo fields, so in DBGrid should be (memo) or (MEMO), not (blob) or (BLOB)

For MySQL (sqlDB components):
 TEXT and BLOB fields are not distinguished correctly, so both are treated as BLOB