> Can you provide a list of functions you suggest?

At least, It would be very handy to have a function that returns the
contents of a column (given a statement handle and a column index) in
a char * buffer, that do all the complex stuff of converting data,
blobs from firebird datatypes into "standard strings".

For example, this would ease me to finish my firebird integration into
SphinxSearch... because, for now, I'm blocked with memory management
and blobs management.

The same code for MySQL and PostgreSQL in SphinxSearch is only ONE
line long !!!!

My 2 cents,

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Pierre Yager