| Compact compression mode | Longint | 1 | Compressed as much as possible (at the expense of the speed of compression and decompression operations). Default method. | 
                | Extended real format | Longint | 1 |  | 
                | Fast compression mode | Longint | 2 | Compressed as fast as possible (and will be decompressed as fast as  possible), at the expense of the compression ratio (the compressed BLOB  will be bigger). | 
                | GZIP Best compression mode | Longint | -1 | Most compact GZIP compression | 
                | GZIP Fast compression mode | Longint | -2 | Fastest GZIP compression | 
                | Is not compressed | Longint | 0 | Pas de compression | 
                | Mac C string | Longint | 0 |  | 
                | Mac Pascal string | Longint | 1 |  | 
                | Mac Text with length | Longint | 2 |  | 
                | Mac Text without length | Longint | 3 |  | 
                | Macintosh byte ordering | Longint | 1 |  | 
                | Macintosh double real format | Longint | 2 |  | 
                | Native byte ordering | Longint | 0 |  | 
                | Native real format | Longint | 0 |  | 
                | PC byte ordering | Longint | 2 |  | 
                | PC double real format | Longint | 3 |  | 
                | UTF8 C string | Longint | 4 |  | 
                | UTF8 Text with length | Longint | 5 |  | 
                | UTF8 Text without length | Longint | 6 |  |