Alex Peshkov wrote:

> On Thursday 31 January 2008 17:17, zedalaye wrote:
>
>>> 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".
>>
>
> What should be done for non-character data? I can imagine use of sprintf() for
> numerics, but please explain what to do with non-text BLOBs?

The API itself may call others API functions that go to the server to do
things. Example:
getString(blob) -> getBlobId(), openBlob(), readBlob(), closeBlob()


Adriano