Claudio,

> and in the meantime, you could document your observation, logging a bug
> against Firebird (don't know if you want to append to the same bug, but log
> it, please).

Done.

> IB didn't complain.

A quick glance at the Firebird bug list shows that generally IB expects
one knows well what he's doing... ;-)
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