At 03:11 AM 4/29/00 -0300, Fabricio Araujo wrote:

>>
>>The problem with that is that the RDB$FILES table itself may be in
>>a secondary file.
>
>A so important table can be on secondary file? Unlike metadata
>tables, is very interesting that this table must reside on the main
>file...
>

No table has file affinity. An Interbase database has a single
page space spread across a number of files. No table can be
accessed until the engine has found and openned all database
files.

Jim Starkey