External Stored Procedures That Use CLOB or BLOB Arguments - Analytics Database - Teradata Vantage

External stored procedures can define CLOB or BLOB input and output arguments, passing them by locator.

An external stored procedure can be called in a request that inputs inline CLOBs or BLOBs; however, an external stored procedure cannot be used in a request that returns an inline CLOB or BLOB. A workaround for this restriction is to create a stored procedure that calls the external stored procedure, which returns the CLOB or BLOB argument by locator to the stored procedure, which in turn returns the CLOB or BLOB.

The guidelines for defining external stored procedures that use CLOB or BLOB arguments are similar to the guidelines for defining UDFs that use CLOB or BLOB arguments. For details, see Defining Functions that Use LOB Types.

For details about these and other LOB-related FNC functions, see C Library Functions.

The requirement for using the FNC LOB access functions also apply in order for the external stored procedure to return default LOB values.