I agree with this suggestion. The problem is having to register UDF's
with each DB. Why not register them by default and still have the
ability to add extra ones if you like. It's just nice that with MySQL,
SQl Server etc you have shed loads of functions ready to go. With FB
you do but only if you register them.

I also think it will put off new commers because if they do not know
of the UDF and how to register them they will think that firebird
lacks many features when it doesn't.

Would it be too difficult to pre-register these but as part of the
engine. That way they just appear in a DB, much like the simplesum and
count functions?

Giulio

--- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, "Claudio Valderrama C."
<cvalde@u...> wrote:

> Antonio Mejia wrote:
> >
> > I would also like to have all the UDFs incorporated like native
> > functions!.
>
> Can you explain what's the problem with the current configuration?

Is it too

> hard to use a shared library or DLL that comes with the

installation? Or the

> problem is that you don't want to do the UDF declarations in each

database?

> I don't see any advantage in putting ib_udf inside the engine.
>
> C.