Richard Wesley wrote:

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> On Jan 8, 2007, at 13:02, Ivan Prenosil wrote:
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> > Regarding UDFs and null handling - I think you would save lot of time
> > if you just write your own (after all they are *user* defined
> > functions)
> > instead of endlessly testing/comparing someone else's work.
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> One could apply this same logic to the rest of the Firebird
> distribution (it is OSS after all) but I think there is a middle
> ground here. Because of this, I don't think it is unreasonable to
> expect the UDFs shipped with FB to have conventional NULL handling.
> But I understand that there may be backwards compatibility issues
> with the ib_ library.

If backwards compatibility is the issue, then an alternative library,
with "fixed" null handling is perhaps the answer? Load the library that
works the way you want.

regards
ian