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

Interesting - I just had an Informix rep here yesterday that mentioned the "256" limit on a returned record, but, when you look in the 4GL Reference manual (Vol 1, pgs 3-19 & 3-20) it states that 4GL allocates 5K of memory to store char strings retruned by functions... Check out these pages to see if they help. Regards - Eric P. Melillo Database Administrator / Senior Systems Analyst Seattle Municipal Court > proberts@lynx.informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes: [ Stuff clipped ] > 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. > > Thanks in advance.... > > - Paul