diff --git a/dbcon/joblist/crossenginestep.cpp b/dbcon/joblist/crossenginestep.cpp
index 4afb7fc4f..aeb270ad2 100644
--- a/dbcon/joblist/crossenginestep.cpp
+++ b/dbcon/joblist/crossenginestep.cpp
@@ -235,8 +235,8 @@ void CrossEngineStep::setField(int i, const char* value, unsigned long length, R
 {
 	CalpontSystemCatalog::ColDataType colType = row.getColType(i);
 
-	if (((colType == CalpontSystemCatalog::CHAR || colType == CalpontSystemCatalog::VARCHAR) &&
-		row.getColumnWidth(i) > 8))
+	if ((colType == CalpontSystemCatalog::CHAR || colType == CalpontSystemCatalog::VARCHAR) &&
+		row.getColumnWidth(i) > 8)
 	{
 		if (value != NULL)
 			row.setStringField(value, i);
diff --git a/primitives/linux-port/dictionary.cpp b/primitives/linux-port/dictionary.cpp
index a41626dad..0cc56df34 100644
--- a/primitives/linux-port/dictionary.cpp
+++ b/primitives/linux-port/dictionary.cpp
@@ -425,6 +425,11 @@ again:
 				//  is larger than the number of signatures in this block. Return a "special" string so that
 				//  the query keeps going, but that can be recognized as an internal error upon inspection.
 				//@Bug 2534. Change the length check to 8000
+
+                // MCOL-267:
+                // With BLOB support we have had to increase this to 8176
+                // because a BLOB can take 8176 bytes of a dictionary block
+                // instead of the fixed 8000 with CHAR/VARCHAR
 				if (ret->len < 0 || ret->len > 8176)
 				{
 					ret->data = reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t*>(signatureNotFound);