Cast ld values to varchar in user artifacts statement The problem appears to be that now with v in the artifactsdb as a TEXT datatype that we get CLOBS as a result here. To make the old stuff work we cast the ld_ values that are evalutated in datacage functions back to varchar and thus to strings.

SYMBOLSET
SYMBOL
  NAME 'point'
  TYPE ELLIPSE
  POINTS
    1 1
  END
  FILLED TRUE
END
SYMBOL
  NAME "square"
  TYPE VECTOR
  POINTS
    0 0
    0 1
    1 1
    1 0
    0 0
  END
  FILLED TRUE
END
END