At 11:04 AM 27-02-02 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>we are trying to setup a Firebird server with a database that
>contains a number of BLOBs. We would like to take advantage of BLOB
>UDFs to work with them (e.g. convert EMF BLOBS into BMP BLOBs on
>demand), but any UDF we tried that returns a BLOB failed to work
>properly.
>We tried our own UDFs and also some of the free udf libs out there.
>Each time we call an UDF returning a BLOB, the error message is -804
>and something with wrong SQLDA...
>
>Any ideas? If this is not the right place to ask this kind of
>questions, where could I get help?

Yes, it's the right place. :))

-804 is returned when you call an unknown function...did you declare your
functions to the database?

DECLARE EXTERNAL FUNCTION....

rgds
Helen

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