> It uses date and time decoding rotines from client library. If you want
> to use this library with Firebird, you must link it with Firebird's
> client library, fbclient.dll {.so}
>
> SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov

Fascinating. Never observed this need before. And it only loads the client library once upon first access to the UDF lib and then lets go of it. You can actually delete the client lib after the first query which needs a UDF call is fired.
Alan

>
>
> >
> > Perhaps it's not the server that needs the client library, but the
> UDF
> > that try to load it.
> >
> > see you !
> >
> > --
> > Alexandre Benson Smith
>
> could be - but it's the FreeUDFLib which I've been using unchanged
> since
> 1999. I don't know of anything which it needs in the client lib.
> Also interesting is that once the udf lib is first loaded, you can
> delete
> the client lib and the server doesn't object again (until you reboot
> and it
> tries to first load it again).
> So I suspect that there is noting in the lib itself which needs the
> clinet
> lib but the server gets the client lib to do something when it first
> strikes
> a UDF lib.
> Alan