Subject Re: [ib-support] Re: UDFs returning BLOB cause error -804
Author Paul Reeves
mircostange wrote:
>
> Another info:
> Actually interbase shows me that the metadata of the function was
> changed to
>
> DECLARE EXTERNAL FUNCTION F_STRBLOB
> CSTRING(254) CHARACTER SET NONE
> RETURNS BLOB
> ENTRY_POINT 'StrBlob' MODULE_NAME 'FreeUDFLib.dll';
>
> So I really would expect it to accept 1 parameter (string) and return
> a BLOB
>

Sounds reasonable. I must confess I haven't used this UDF library so I'm
not sure what the function is meant to achieve. Presumably it converts a
string to a blob?

Why are you doing this and where? Your original post mentioned
converting binary blobs from one graphics format to another - where does
the string come into it?


Paul
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