At 10.29 13/12/2001 -0800, you wrote:

I think that this should never happen....
Everyone can check on which version of the DB is running
and so everyone can change the queries if he wants to support
both DBs.
Also I think that this can be interpreted as a Client Problem
so is the library we use that should have a function that
tell us in which environment we are working.
If we use IBO we can expect a new property in the component
a StartRow property.
This property in conjunction of the maxrows property
could be converted in the FIRST n SKIP m
or in the second syntax.
The same thing can happen in FIB
I don't mention IBX as he will not support FB it is clear...

My two cents
Marco