> So "serious" than my IBServer 6 doesn't crash. What's the exact

environment,

From my original post:

> Preconditions: debug build with DEV_BUILD macro defined.

Verified to abort, not crash, on both Win32 and Linux.

> do you need values stored in that field rdb$field_description?

Probably not. I tested it on a newly created DB, and it aborted just fine.

/Mike