Re: 4GL: any upper limit on what a function can return?

In article <5omn4c$b6v@news.informix.com> proberts@lynx.informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes: > >I've looked through an assortment of manuals and haven't found the answer >to this (although I'm quite prepared to believe that the answer lies in >some hitherto unexplored manual)... > >Isn't there a limit on the amount of data that a 4GL function can return? >Perhaps the maximum length of a text string, or the maximum total length >of all text strings returned, or something (the number 256 comes to mind)? > >I want to have my 4GL function return a set of 13 text strings to the >calling program, and I want to be sure that I'm not going to run up against >some limit of just how much stuff such a function can return. > >I'm using 4GL 6.01.UD1 I dunno what the limit is, but I always just use temp tables if I need to do this sort of thing. Peter Wiley