Frank Ingermann schrieb:

> note that i found this in a knowledgebase article, and i don't know
> whether or not it might be outdated for Firebird - and i do trust Frank
> (no, not myself, the other one<g>) when he writes something like this, as he is
> an experienced fb devel - as you may recall, he was the one that found the
> backdoor in IB6!)

It's a long time since I had a closer look at the FB-sources, so I'm
not really an experienced fb devel :-)

But I think that this FREE IT stuff is an ugly workaround and adds more
possibilities to corrupt your database. It works if you know what you
are doing.

I don't know what IB 7.0 will bring, but Claudio Valderrama's fbudf
library uses RETURNS PARAMETER X instead of the FREE IT kludge, so this
syntax will stay valid for Firebird.

Frank